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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Monetization Platform

Provides hands-on technical leadership for Rippling’s Monetization Platform, spanning contracts, entitlements, subscriptions, metering, billing, payments, tax, and revenue workflows. The role requires 15+ years of software engineering experience, Staff+ architectural scope, distributed-systems expertise, and strong cross-functional mentorship.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Own major technical charters across CPQ, contracts, entitlements, subscriptions, usage metering, billing, invoicing, payments, tax, compliance, and revenue workflows.
  • Define architecture for systems requiring strong guarantees around data integrity, auditability, reliability, recoverability, and clear ownership across service boundaries.
  • Design durable platform abstractions for new packaging, pricing, entitlement, metered billing, subscription, and contract models.
  • Lead multi-team initiatives from problem definition and architecture through technical design, execution, migration, launch, and operational ownership.
  • Define service boundaries, APIs, data models, ownership models, and failure-handling strategies.
  • Make tradeoffs across correctness, scalability, performance, cost, compliance, maintainability, and delivery speed.
  • Stay hands-on through design reviews, code reviews, debugging, prototyping, production investigations, and implementation decisions.
  • Partner with Product, Revenue Operations, Finance, Accounting, Payments, Platform, Security, Data, and product engineering teams.
  • Establish standards for testing, observability, incident learning, migration safety, rollout mechanisms, and operational readiness.
  • Mentor Staff, Senior, and mid-level engineers and raise the engineering bar through technical judgment, design reviews, technical writing, and operational excellence.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience, preferably across backend engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure, distributed systems, product engineering, or systems engineering.
  • Experience operating at Senior Staff, Principal Engineer, or equivalent Staff+ scope.
  • Strong hands-on foundation in coding, debugging, system design, and production ownership.
  • Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems with demanding reliability, observability, and data correctness requirements.
  • Strong architecture depth across APIs, databases, data modeling, concurrency, event-driven systems, service boundaries, reliability, performance, failure modes, and maintainability.
  • Ability to own ambiguous, cross-functional, multi-team initiatives from definition through production ownership.
  • Strong technical judgment and ability to balance product needs, business constraints, engineering quality, and long-term platform direction.
  • Ability to influence senior engineers, product leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority.
  • Strong mentorship record and a track record of raising engineering standards.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Compensation and benefits information was not provided.

Skills

Distributed Systems, Backend Engineering, Platform Engineering, APIs, Databases, Data Modeling, Concurrency, Event-Driven Systems, System Design, Reliability, Observability, Billing, Payments, Tax Compliance, CPQ

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