# Senior Software Engineer, Platform

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Seattle, WA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Platform Infrastructure, Core Infrastructure, Shared Services, Kubernetes, AWS, Go, Java, Python, Microservices
**Posted:** 2025-11-13

> Designs, implements, and evolves core platform infrastructure and shared services to enable scalable product development for 1000+ engineers. Requires 5+ years building distributed systems at scale and cross-functional communication skills.

## Job Description

## What you will do
- Drive the design, implementation, and evolution of core platform infrastructure and shared services.
- Lead mission critical projects to build and scale core platform capabilities.
- Work closely with engineers across the organization to adopt these components to evolve existing products and bring new products to market.
- Influence architecture, technology selections, and trends of the whole company.
- Build and grow your engineering skills in different challenging areas and solve hard technical problems.

## What you will need
- 5+ years of hands-on experience building core product infrastructure and distributed systems that directly support and empower product-facing engineering teams.
- You have seen and contributed to systems operating at a significant technical and organizational scale.
- Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a diverse audience, not just engineers but cross functional groups like product and design, and an amplitude of end users.

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