Staff Software Engineer

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Job Description

Rippling is seeking a visionary Staff Software Engineer for its Unity Platform team in Bangalore, India. This role involves designing, developing, and maintaining internet-scale, highly distributed systems and scalable services. The ideal candidate will have over 12 years of experience, proficient in Python, Golang, and Java, with deep expertise in distributed computing, data architecture, and scalable system design. Responsibilities include technical leadership, mentorship, API development, and working with analytical and transactional storage systems, cloud platforms, and streaming technologies to ensure high performance, reliability, and scalability for millions of users.
Must have:
  • Architect and lead internet-scale, highly distributed systems.
  • Proficient in Python, Golang, and Java for coding and code reviews.
  • Provide visionary technical leadership and mentor engineers.
  • Design systems for millions of users, ensuring performance and scalability.
  • Expertise in designing modular APIs, including Backend for Frontend (BFF).
  • Experience with analytical (Presto, S3, Snowflake) and transactional (MySQL, Aurora, MongoDB) storage.
  • Develop highly available systems with 99.99% or 99.999% uptime.
  • Implement comprehensive observability (monitoring, logging, tracing).
  • Build and integrate streaming (Spark, Flink, Kafka) and workflow systems.
  • Strong communication skills for technical concepts.

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 Rippling

Rippling is the first way for businesses to manage all of their HR & IT—payroll, benefits, computers, apps, and more—in one unified workforce platform.

By connecting every business system to one source of truth for employee data, businesses can automate all of the manual work they normally need to do to make employee changes. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can just click a button and set up a new employees’ payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps—like Slack, Zoom, and Office 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, Bedrock, and Greenoaks—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes (#12 out of 500). Since day one, our Bangalore site has been a critical part of our R&D org, driving the build-out of many of our critical products (ex: Payroll, Global ExPEO, EOR, Billing, etc.) In addition to Product teams across Finance, HR and IT, we have multiple infra, front end and mobile and platform teams. We are looking to grow our 250+ R&D team in BLR with multiple highly empowered, best-in-class, Principal level engineering talent across platform and product roles.

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

We are seeking a visionary and hands-on Staff Software Engineers to join our Rippling Unity Platform team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in building internet-scale distributed systems, developing scalable services, and crafting clean, modular APIs. This role requires deep expertise in both analytical and transactional systems, and a strong understanding of Scalability , Concurrency , SLAs, system resiliency, and observability. The candidate should be proficient in coding with languages such as Python, Golang, and Java, and experienced in handling systems with millions of users.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect and Lead: Design, develop, and maintain internet-scale, highly distributed systems and scalable services for the Rippling Unity Platform.
  • Hands-On Coding: Actively participate in coding and code reviews, using languages such as Python, Golang, and Java.
  • Technical Leadership: Provide visionary technical leadership, setting the direction for engineering best practices and the adoption of advanced technologies.
  • Mentorship: Mentor and support engineers across the organization, fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and technical excellence.
  • System Design: Architect systems capable of handling millions of users simultaneously, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability.
  • API Development: Design and implement clean, modularized abstraction APIs and programmatic APIs for both end users and engineers, including Backend for Frontend (BFF) systems.
  • Storage Solutions: Design and implement Analytical systems that encompass both analytical (e.g., Presto, S3, Snowflake) and transactional (e.g., MySQL, Aurora, MongoDB) systems. They should be able to handle petabyte scale
  • Resiliency and SLAs: Develop and maintain systems with high availability and reliability, targeting four or five 9s (99.99% or 99.999%) uptime.
  • Observability: Implement comprehensive observability practices, including monitoring, logging, and tracing, to ensure system health and performance.
  • Streaming and Workflow Systems: Build and integrate streaming solutions (e.g., Spark Streaming, Apache Flink, Kafka Connect) and workflow systems for both transactional and analytical workflows.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, data science, and operations, to align on strategic goals and ensure successful project delivery.
  • Innovation: Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, driving innovation and continuous improvement within the Rippling Unity Platform.
  • Documentation and Standards: Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation and standards for system architecture, design, and operational processes.

Required Qualifications

  • Experience: 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with a significant focus on building large-scale distributed systems and scalable services.
  • Technical Expertise: Proficient in coding with languages such as Python, Golang, and Java. Deep understanding of distributed computing principles, data architecture, and scalable system design.
  • Leadership: Demonstrated experience in technical leadership roles, with a proven track record of mentoring and developing engineering teams.
  • Systems Expertise: Extensive experience in building systems handling millions of users in parallel and developing scalable services. Deep understanding of SLAs, system resiliency, and observability.
  • API Development: Expertise in designing and implementing clean, modularized abstraction APIs and programmatic APIs, including BFF for front-end systems.
  • Storage Systems: Expertise in both analytical (e.g., Presto, S3, Snowflake) and transactional (e.g., MySQL, Aurora, MongoDB) storage systems.
  • Cloud and Streaming: Experience with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, S3) and streaming technologies (e.g., Spark Streaming, Apache Flink, Kafka Connect).
  • Workflow Systems: Understanding of both transactional and analytical workflow systems.
  • Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

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.

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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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