# Staff Software Engineer - Workflows Platform

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, React, MongoDB, Temporal, Kafka, AWS, Distributed Systems
**Posted:** 2025-12-17

> Staff Software Engineer builds scalable platforms for Workflow Studio, enabling no-code automation of business operations. Requires 7+ years experience with large-scale distributed systems and preferred expertise in Python, Golang, React, and AWS.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do:
- Develop high quality software with attention to detail
- Ship incrementally and continually at high velocity
- Jump into different and new codebases and diagnose issues and problems quickly
- Build for systems that scale for a large variety of use cases
- Tackle large scaling challenges that involve scaling our capabilities to support 100,000+ employee companies
- Work highly cross functionally with engineering leaders across the engineering org
- Become the in-house expert on Rippling customers and competition

## Qualifications:
- **7+ years of software engineering experience**
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems, such as high-volume SaaS environments
- **Preferred**: experience in building out large scale product infrastructures/platforms
- **Preferred**: experience in our technology stack and similar technologies - **Python**, **Golang**, **React**, **MongoDB**, **Temporal**, **Kafka**, **AWS**
- Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing them
- A track record of influencing and enabling forward-thinking technology decisions across a wide organization
- Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in written and verbal modes

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