Rippling · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer - Payroll Data
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $315K/yr
8+ years expRippling is a company that provides a unified platform for HR, IT, and Finance, enabling businesses to manage their workforce systems efficiently. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Payroll Data team, you will design and build scalable data infrastructure and query systems to support the global payroll ecosystem, ensuring data correctness and reliability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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Responsibilities
Architect and Build Core Data Systems: Design and implement scalable data infrastructure and pipelines that power payroll reports, pay stubs, tax and accounting integrations, billing, and AI use cases
Define the Unified Query Layer: Partner with other Staff and Principal engineers to design and evolve a cohesive data query layer that spans batch and real-time processing, reducing fragmentation and enabling consistent access patterns
Own End-to-End Data Pipelines: Build and maintain ETL and streaming pipelines, owning data correctness, schema evolution, backfills, and lifecycle management across upstream and downstream systems
Drive Non-Functional Excellence: Lead by example in building systems that are observable, debuggable, scalable, and reliable. Set standards for monitoring, logging, alerting, and data quality checks
Solve Deep Interoperability Problems: Tackle complex challenges at the boundaries between Payroll Data and other core systems (Object Graph, Reporting, RQL, AI), ensuring clean abstractions and long-term extensibility
Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Act as a technical multiplier—review designs, unblock other engineers, mentor senior engineers, and raise the overall technical bar of the team
Partner Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Product, Platform, AI, and other Payroll teams to translate product needs into robust platform capabilities while influencing roadmaps with data-informed tradeoffs
Qualification
Required
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated impact on complex backend or data-intensive systems
Strong data infrastructure background, including experience with data pipelines, ETL/ELT systems, or large-scale data platforms
Expertise in distributed systems, with an understanding of tradeoffs across batch vs. real-time processing, data materialization, and aggregation strategies
Proficiency in a modern backend language (e.g., Go, Java, Python) and comfort working across multiple systems and services
Experience with transactional and analytical data stores, and optimizing schemas and queries for correctness and performance
Platform mindset, with a track record of building reusable abstractions and primitives consumed by many teams or products
Operational rigor, including hands-on experience designing for observability, reliability, and debuggability in production systems
Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts and influence design decisions across teams
Ownership and autonomy, balanced with collaboration—comfortable leading large initiatives while partnering effectively with others
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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2025 (2)
2024 (42)
2023 (70)
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2021 (33)
2020 (6)
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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