Senior Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

What You Will Do

• Define and execute the long-term technical vision for Rippling's Developer Experience platform.
• Architect the next generation of AI-native engineering workflows across a 1,000+ engineer organization.
• Own and evolve critical development infrastructure, including local and cloud environments, CI/CD systems, repository architecture, test infrastructure, build systems, and agent execution environments.
• Design systems that allow both engineers and AI agents to safely, reliably, and efficiently develop software at scale.
• Identify and eliminate systemic sources of friction that impact engineering productivity across the company.
• Make high-leverage architectural decisions that influence hundreds of engineers and dozens of product organizations.
• Lead large-scale technical transformations that span 100+ teams and millions of lines of code.
• Establish technical standards and patterns that balance developer autonomy with platform consistency.
• Partner closely with Infrastructure, Platform, AI, and Product Engineering leaders to solve company-wide challenges.
• Dive deep into complex systems and codebases when necessary, driving clarity in ambiguous technical situations.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization.

What You Will Need

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience operating at the Staff or Senior Staff level.
• Deep expertise building and scaling distributed systems in high-growth technology companies.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals and fluency in modern systems programming and application development.
• Experience shaping architecture and technical strategy across large engineering organizations.
• A track record of leading multi-year, cross-organizational technical initiatives from inception through execution.
• Strong product intuition and a passion for understanding developer needs and building exceptional developer experiences.
• Experience building platforms, infrastructure, developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or large-scale engineering productivity solutions.
• Comfort operating in highly ambiguous environments where the right answer has not yet been defined.
• Exceptional communication and influence skills, with the ability to align senior technical and executive stakeholders.
• Curiosity and excitement about how AI will transform software development over the next decade.