# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $201k – $345k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Backend Engineering, Systems Programming, CI/CD, Developer Tooling, Infrastructure Platforms, AI Workflows, Repository Architecture, Build Systems, Test Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-06-22

> Senior Staff Engineer to define AI-native developer experience and infrastructure at Rippling, owning architecture for local/cloud environments, CI/CD, repository design, testing, and agent sandboxes across a 1,000+ engineer organization. Requires 10+ years experience, deep distributed systems expertise, and a track record leading large-scale technical transformations.

## Job Description

## 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.

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