Rippling · 1 day ago
Principal Software Engineer - Global Payroll
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$216K/yr - $378K/yr
18+ years expRippling is a company that provides a unified platform for HR, IT, and Finance, and they are seeking a Principal Engineer to architect and scale their next-generation Global Payroll Platform. This role involves designing systems for payroll computation, compliance, and payments for millions of employees across multiple countries.
EmploymentHuman Resources
Responsibilities
Architect Rippling’s next-gen Payroll computation engine — modular, extensible, and capable of encoding multi-jurisdictional compliance logic declaratively
Design data models and pipelines that handle versioned pay runs, audit trails, retroactive corrections, and time-based computations at global scale
Build scalable rules engines to automate ever-changing tax, benefits, and labor laws across jurisdictions, ensuring compliance through dynamic, AI-generated logic
Modernize global payment infrastructure for real-time or near-instant disbursements while balancing reconciliation, fraud detection, and regulatory constraints
Evolve reporting and permissions systems to deliver real-time insights and granular access controls for complex, multi-entity organizations
Partner with Product, Compliance, and Finance teams to convert ambiguous regulatory specs into clear, deterministic system behavior
Lead high-impact initiatives like sandboxed “simulation” payrolls, AI-powered paystub explainability, and what-if analysis for enterprises
Shape the long-term platform vision, influencing 150+ engineers across Finance and HR Infrastructure as a multiplier, mentor, and architectural authority
Qualification
Required
18+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems in high-compliance or high-integrity domains (Finance, Payroll, Tax, Insurance, etc.)
Deep expertise in data architecture, domain-driven design, and rule-based / event-driven systems
Experience scaling compliance-heavy, multi-country systems — ideally payroll, tax, or financial computation platforms
Proficiency in designing modular service boundaries, ensuring backward compatibility and auditability
Strong understanding of computation correctness, versioned state, precision handling, and retroactive adjustments
Proven ability to partner across functions — translating legal/compliance constraints into elegant, maintainable systems
A strong architectural voice who can both design systems and mentor teams to scale them sustainably
Preferred
Experience with AI-driven system automation or compliance-as-code frameworks
Hands-on work with global payroll systems, real-time payments, or statutory tax logic
Familiarity with event sourcing, CQRS, streaming pipelines, and immutable data stores
Contributions to open-source distributed computation frameworks or rule engines
Benefits
Competitive salary
Benefits
Equity
Company
Rippling
Rippling is a workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, and finance operations into a single system.
1001-5000 employees
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2023 (70)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2.44BKey Investors
CoatueGreenoaksFounders Fund
2025-05-09Series G· $450M
2024-04-22Series F· $200M
2024-04-22Secondary Market· $590M
Leadership Team
Albert Strasheim
Chief Technology Officer
Adil Syed
CFO
Recent News
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