HRIS Flows Experience: Focused on creating simple, intuitive workflows that empower Rippling's customers to manage employee data seamlessly.
HRIS Flows Infrastructure: Provides the scalable backbone for all flow products, prioritizing reliability, data integrity, and performance at scale.
HR Applications: Develops essential tools and interfaces for customers to view, manage, and interact with employee data effectively.
Org Management: Enables the creation and maintenance of company structures tailored to organizations of all sizes and complexities.
We are seeking a visionary and hands-on Staff Engineers to join our Rippling HRIS team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in building internet-scale distributed systems, developing scalable services, and crafting clean, modular APIs. This role requires deep expertise in both analytical and transactional systems, and a strong understanding of Scalability , Concurrency , SLAs, system resiliency, and observability. The candidate should be proficient in coding with languages such as Python, Golang, and Java, and experienced in handling systems with millions of users.
Key Responsibilities
✓Architect and Lead: Design, develop, and maintain internet-scale, highly distributed systems and scalable services for the Rippling HRIS team.
✓Hands-On Coding: Actively participate in coding and code reviews, using languages such as Python, Golang, and Java.
✓Technical Leadership: Provide visionary technical leadership, setting the direction for engineering best practices and the adoption of advanced technologies.
✓Mentorship: Mentor and support engineers across the organization, fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and technical excellence.
✓System Design: Architect systems capable of handling millions of users simultaneously, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability.
✓API Development: Design and implement clean, modularized abstraction APIs and programmatic APIs for both end users and engineers, including Backend for Frontend (BFF) systems.
✓Storage Solutions: Design and implement Analytical systems that encompass both analytical (e.g., Presto, S3, Snowflake) and transactional (e.g., MySQL, Aurora, MongoDB) systems. They should be able to handle petabyte scale
✓Resiliency and SLAs: Develop and maintain systems with high availability and reliability, targeting four or five 9s (99.99% or 99.999%) uptime.
✓Observability: Implement comprehensive observability practices, including monitoring, logging, and tracing, to ensure system health and performance.
✓Streaming and Workflow Systems: Build and integrate streaming solutions (e.g., Spark Streaming, Apache Flink, Kafka Connect) and workflow systems for both transactional and analytical workflows.
✓Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, data science, and operations, to align on strategic goals and ensure successful project delivery.
✓Innovation: Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, driving innovation and continuous improvement within the Rippling HRIS team.
✓Documentation and Standards: Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation and standards for system architecture, design, and operational processes.
✓Org-level leverage: Product teams ship faster without re-implementing common patterns or unintentionally breaking critical paths.
✓Performance & reliability: App Shell consistently meets defined SLAs for performance and reliability, with regressions caught automatically.
✓Consistency at scale: Core UI behaviors (grids, editor, navigation, flows) behave predictably across the product.
✓Platform adoption: New and existing teams adopt UI Platform services as defaults rather than building bespoke solutions.
✓Technical leadership: Engineers across the org look to you for architectural guidance and platform direction.
✓15+ years of experience building and operating large-scale backend, distributed, or platform systems.
✓Deep programming experience in one or more backend languages such as Golang, Java, or Python.
✓Strong fundamentals in backend architecture, including API design, data modelling, service boundaries, dependency management, concurrency, performance, reliability, and failure isolation.
✓Proven experience building internal platforms or foundational systems used by multiple engineering teams.
✓Experience designing guardrails, validation systems, and automated enforcement mechanisms—not just publishing guidelines.
✓Strong operational ownership, including observability, debugging, incident response, capacity planning, and production reliability.
✓Experience leading complex architectural initiatives and large-scale migrations across multiple teams.
✓Ability to influence engineering direction without relying on direct reporting authority.
✓Comfortable balancing hands-on coding and technical execution with architecture, mentorship, and organizational leadership.
✓Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly through design documents, RFCs, architecture reviews, and cross-team alignment.
✓Experience building configuration-driven platforms, workflow engines, orchestration systems, developer platforms, or low-code frameworks.
✓Experience owning foundational platform systems adopted by hundreds of engineers or multiple product organizations.
✓Background in safely migrating thousands of existing configurations, workflows, or application instances onto new platforms.
✓Experience establishing performance budgets, reliability guardrails, platform governance, and automated architectural enforcement.
✓Practical experience using AI-assisted developer tooling to accelerate migrations, automate refactoring, validate invariants, or review large-scale system changes.
✓Familiarity with web or mobile application architecture and the backend infrastructure required to support complex user-facing platforms.
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