# Staff Software Engineer - Data Bridge

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** New York, NY, Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Spark, Flink, AWS, Distributed Systems, APIs, Data Pipelines, Data Lake, Scalable Systems, Observability Tools, Workflow Orchestration
**Posted:** 2026-04-01

> Leads mission-critical projects to build scalable distributed data ingestion systems and data lake architecture powering ML models and Rippling products. Requires 8+ years backend experience, expertise in high-availability services, data processing frameworks like Spark/Flink, and cross-functional leadership.

## Job Description

## What you will do
- Lead mission-critical projects and deliver data ingestions capabilities end-to-end with high quality
- Have clear ownership of one or many products, APIs or platform spaces
- Work within Rippling's central infrastructure team, responsible for delivering highly scalable distributed data ingestion systems, build a data lake architecture for various downstream systems to consume
- Get exposure to partners and customers in different business domains, who will help provide feedback for your product space
- Ensure operational excellence and scale the platform capabilities to serve many different UCs across Rippling Products
- Build and grow your engineering skills in different challenging areas and solve hard technical problems
- Influence architecture, technology selections, and trends of the whole company

## What you will need
- 8+ years of professional work experience as a backend engineer
- Significant leadership experience driving complex cross-functional projects across teams, product managers, designers, etc
- Expertise in building complex distributed services with high availability and strict SLAs
- Experience building large-scale user-facing applications, APIs, and developer tools
- Strong CS fundamentals, and knowledge of architecture and common design patterns
- You’re passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer impact
- You have experience of running data processing pipelines in production using distributed data processing frameworks like **Apache Spark** or **Flink**

**Bonus points if you’ve built integrations with 3rd party SaaS providers and workflow orchestration systems**
**Bonus points if you’ve previously worked with AWS and have working knowledge of observability tooling**

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