Rippling · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer - Payroll Orchestration
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $315K/yr
8+ years expRippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance, managing and automating every part of the employee lifecycle. The role involves designing and implementing distributed systems for the payroll engine, ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
EmploymentHuman Resources
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and implement distributed systems with a strong platform mindset
Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
Demonstrate expertise in concurrency control mechanisms and message ordering techniques to ensure data consistency in payroll processing
Utilize message queues and job flow systems (e.g Temporal) to orchestrate complex workflows related to payroll engine and payments processing, guaranteeing message delivery and job execution
Develop efficient data pipelines utilizing different transactional and analytical query engines to deliver fast data aggregates that power the payroll engine
Leverage bitemporal data modeling techniques to effectively manage payroll data flows
Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional engineering teams to align on strategic goals and ensure successful project delivery
Observability: Implement comprehensive observability practices, including monitoring, logging, and tracing, to ensure system health and performance
Resiliency and SLAs: Develop and maintain critical payroll platform systems with high availability and reliability, targeting four or five 9s uptime
Qualification
Required
8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
Proficiency in a modern programming language (e.g. Go, Python)
Comfortable at developing scalable and extendable core services and primitives with good abstractions that are used in many product flows
You have seen systems operating at a significant organizational scale
Solid understanding of message queues and job flow systems (e.g., Temporal, Kafka)
In-depth knowledge of concurrency control mechanisms and message ordering techniques
Experience with DB transactional (e.g., Mongo, PostgreSQL) and analytical query engines (e.g, Snowflake, Clickhouse), and optimizing queries for performance
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects, while also thriving in a team environment
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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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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