Staff Software Engineer

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.85B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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The team delivers across four strategic pillars:

• Data Discoverability: Catalog browse, search, and field-selection experiences used throughout Rippling, enabling users to find the most relevant data for their use case across a vast and growing schema.
• Data Enrichment: AI-generated semantic descriptions, glossary tagging, sampled values, usage signals, and RQL formula examples — adding business context that makes raw schema meaningful.
• Data Governance: PII classification, sensitive data flagging, compliance tagging, and integration with access controls and auditing infrastructure.
• Data Lifecycle: Upstream and downstream dependency tracking, lineage visualization, and event-driven metadata sync to ensure the Catalog stays live and accurate as Rippling's data model evolves.

• 8+ years of experience in software development, preferably in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
• Solid understanding of CS fundamentals, architectures, and design patterns.
• Proven track record in building large-scale applications, APIs, and developer tools.
• Excellent at cross-functional collaboration, able to articulate technical concepts to non-technical partners.
• You thrive in a product-focused environment and are passionate about making an impact on customer experience.

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.