Senior Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

rippling

San Francisco, CA, United States
Base: not specified; bonus/equity: competitive equ...
On-site
Developer experience stack ownership
Distributed systems design
Ci/cd and platform architecture
Rippling provides a unified platform for HR, IT, and Finance to manage the entire employee lifecycle in one system

Job Summary

  • Rippling provides a unified platform for HR, IT, and Finance to manage the entire employee lifecycle in one system.
  • This role is a high-impact individual contributor leadership position responsible for shaping how engineers interact with large codebases using AI agents.
  • Rippling offers competitive salary, benefits, equity, and fosters a collaborative in-office work environment with strong ownership and autonomy.

Matching Summary

Rippling provides a unified platform for HR, IT, and Finance to manage the entire employee lifecycle in one system.

Salary

Base: Not specified; Bonus/Equity: Competitive equity offered; Benefits: Competitive benefits package

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Developer Experience stack ownership
  • distributed systems design
  • CI/CD and platform architecture
  • backend engineering with Go and Python
  • technical strategy across large organizations
  • high-ambiguity environment operation

Nice-to-have

  • passion for internal customer needs
  • strong written and verbal communication
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • product taste and UX focus
  • high ownership and autonomy

Key Requirements

  • 10+ years software engineering experience
  • experience at Staff/Senior Staff level
  • experience building scalable distributed systems
  • fluency in statically and dynamically typed languages
  • track record driving complex technical initiatives
  • ability to align senior stakeholders

Work Rights

Not specified

Tailored Resume

Cover Letter