Senior Software Engineer - Data Bridge

2 Months ago • 5 Years + • Data Analysis • $159,000 PA - $278,250 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Bridge team at Rippling is seeking founding members to develop data systems essential for powering ML models and new product lines. This foundational platform component is core to Rippling's growth strategy, aiming to build advanced data systems that extend beyond 500+ current integrations. The role involves leading mission-critical projects, owning products or platform spaces, and working within the central infrastructure team to deliver scalable distributed data ingestion systems and a data lake architecture. You will gain exposure to various business domains, ensure operational excellence, scale platform capabilities, and influence the company's architecture and technology choices. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of backend engineering experience, expertise in building high-availability distributed services, and a passion for customer impact.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience
  • Experience driving complex cross-functional projects
  • Expertise in building complex distributed services
  • Experience building large-scale user-facing applications, APIs, and developer tools
  • Strong CS fundamentals and knowledge of architecture/design patterns
  • Passion for product-focused environments and customer impact
Good to have:
  • Experience running data processing pipelines with Apache Spark or Flink
  • Experience building integrations with 3rd party SaaS providers
  • Experience with workflow orchestration systems
  • Experience with AWS
  • Working knowledge of observability tooling
Perks:
  • Competitive salary
  • Benefits
  • Equity

Job Details

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.


Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.


Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.


We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.

About The Role


The Data Bridge team at Rippling is assembling founding members to build data systems that will power ML models and new product lines. Our team is a foundational platform component positioned at the core of Rippling's compound startup strategy. We're set to build advanced data systems, enabling Rippling to exceed its current 500+ integrations and solidify its reputation as the go-to for launching groundbreaking HR, IT, and Benefits products.


As the market increasingly rewards organizations that own scaled distribution networks, control extensive data sets, and rapidly bring products to market, Rippling and the Data Bridge team are poised to lead. If you are serious about your craft, eager to establish infrastructure with a long-term impact, and have a focused approach to delivering substantial value quickly, we’d love to have you on the Data Bridge team at Rippling.

What You Will Do

  • Lead mission-critical projects and deliver data ingestions capabilities end-to-end with high quality
  • Have clear ownership of one or many products, APIs or platform spaces
  • Work within Rippling's central infrastructure team, responsible for delivering highly scalable distributed data ingestion systems, build a data lake architecture for various downstream systems to consume
  • Get exposure to partners and customers in different business domains, who will help provide feedback for your product space
  • Ensure operational excellence and scale the platform capabilities to serve many different UCs across Rippling Products.
  • Build and grow your engineering skills in different challenging areas and solve hard technical problems
  • Influence architecture, technology selections, and trends of the whole company

What You Will Need

  • 5+ years of professional work experience as a backend engineer
  • Experience driving complex cross-functional projects
  • Expertise in building complex distributed services with high availability and strict SLAs
  • Experience building large-scale user-facing applications, APIs, and developer tools
  • Strong CS fundamentals, and knowledge of architecture and common design patterns 
  • You’re passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer impact
  • Plus if you have experience of running data processing pipelines in production using distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Spark or Flink. 
  • Plus if you’ve built integrations with 3rd party SaaS providers and workflow orchestration systems
  • Plus if you’ve previously worked with AWS and have working knowledge of observability tooling

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com


Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.


This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.


A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.



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