Staff Software Engineer - Platform
Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team leads technical roadmap, scales distributed systems for high QPS and throughput, prototypes AI-powered primitives, and owns core infrastructure to enable Rippling's product ecosystem. Requires 8+ years experience with deep platform expertise.
About the job
What You Will Do
- Lead the Technical Roadmap: Own the roadmap for one of our architectural areas, whether it’s moving our dependency tracking system to a micro-batch/stream processing powerhouse or redesigning our lambda interface for scale.
- Think for the Future: Prototype with the newest AI tools to think about primitives that will be used to democratize development with Rippling.
- Solve for Scale: Tackle our growing size and load and understand where we can be doing less work.
- Own the Stack: Work deeply with infrastructure to manage complex distributed systems that power every Rippling product.
- Operate as a Tech Lead: This is a "pure engineering" team. You will partner directly with other Platform Tech Leads and EMs (your primary customers) to define how Rippling’s core infrastructure evolves.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent on core platform teams.
- Deep Distributed Systems Expertise: You have built and scaled systems that handle high QPS (10k+) and high data throughput.
- Low-Level Enthusiast: You can dive into the details when needed to diagnose issue and can handle the technical depth.
- Developer First: Everywhere you go, you create scripts, leave breadcrumbs, and think about how to make the developers around you succeed.
- Language Agnostic: Proficiency in Python (or a strong desire to master it).
Skills
Distributed Systems, Python, Stream Processing, Micro-Batch Processing, AI Tools, Infrastructure, High Qps Systems, AWS Lambda, Dependency Tracking, Developer Tools
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