Rippling · 3 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer - Enterprise Customer Experience
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $315K/yr
8+ years expRippling is a company that integrates HR, IT, and Finance into a single platform, enhancing the management of employee lifecycle processes. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Enterprise Customer Experience team to lead the architectural transformation of their payroll system to a modern Global Payroll architecture, ensuring reliability and performance during the transition.
EmploymentHuman Resources
Responsibilities
Architect Complex Migrations: Design and build the high-scale migration tooling and strategies required to move massive enterprise datasets from our legacy US system to the Global Payroll platform with zero data loss or downtime
Drive Performance Engineering: Solve critical database performance challenges. You will optimize query patterns, design application-level sharding strategies, and architect the Global Payroll system to handle the scale of our largest enterprise clients
Ensure System Stability: Own the reliability and performance of the legacy US Payroll system for our top-tier customers, ensuring they receive a seamless experience even as we transition the underlying architecture
Lead Technical Vision: Collaborate with Principal Engineers and the SVP of Engineering to define the technical roadmap for the convergence of our payroll stacks, turning ambiguous "special project" requirements into concrete engineering execution
Hands-on Execution: Operate as a prolific individual contributor. You will be hands-on with the code, debugging complex production issues, building observability dashboards, and shipping critical features
Mentorship: Raise the technical bar for the team by leading design reviews, advocating for best practices in distributed systems, and mentoring senior engineers
Qualification
Required
8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with a proven track record of technical leadership in high-growth environments
Deep Distributed Systems Expertise: Experience architecting and maintaining large-scale distributed computing systems. You understand the nuances of application-level partitioning, sharding, and data consistency
Migration Experience: A strong track record of executing large-scale system migrations. You have experience moving complex production systems without disrupting the customer experience
Database Optimization Skills: You are comfortable debugging critical database performance issues, optimizing complex queries, and designing schemas for scale
Backend Proficiency: Strong proficiency in Python and Django (or similar frameworks) is highly preferred, along with experience using MongoDB or similar NoSQL databases
Bias for Action: You thrive in ambiguous environments and can take a high-level business goal (e.g., 'Migrate all Enterprise customers') and break it down into a technical execution plan
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
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