About Rippling:

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 $1.8B+ 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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About the Role:

The Platform Engineering team is building a secure, scalable control plane that powers critical product workflows across the company. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll help take foundational capabilities from 0 → 1 → 10—hardening security, improving operational resilience, and making complex configuration systems dramatically easier to run and extend.

You’ll work on high-impact distributed systems and platform primitives—from designing robust authorization for sensitive operations, to building safer change workflows (think dual-control / two-person review for high-risk writes), to scaling the platform for growing workloads and new product use cases.

At the same time, you’ll drive adoption by enabling multiple product teams to use the platform as a default, reusable capability, and you’ll level up the admin experience with thoughtful improvements especially for complex, hierarchical configurations so operators can move fast without compromising correctness or security.

What you will do

• Own the architectural integrity of core services, ensuring they remain performant and resilient as Rippling’s product suite expands.
• Design and implement strong authorization controls for sensitive platform operations
• Build guardrails for safe changes, including dual-approval workflows for critical writes
• Scale and “productionize” the platform for higher throughput and more diverse use cases
• Improve operability (monitoring, reliability patterns, runbooks, tooling) to meet Op Ex standards
• Work in a cross functional, multi geographic environment and deliver and support complex products and services.
• Act as a technical pillar for the team by conducting rigorous code reviews, mentoring mid-level and junior engineers, and establishing best practices that improve developer velocity across the entire organization.
• Influence the technical direction and tooling strategy across Rippling.

What you will need

• Strong technical depth — quality and scope of experience matter more than years, though successful candidates typically have 7+ years of hands-on development experience.
• A track record of optimizing performance in backend, data-intensive systems.
• Ability to operate and scale systems in high-growth, high-complexity environments.
• Comfort with ambiguity — you identify high-leverage problems and take ownership without waiting for perfect clarity.
• Strong technical leadership and influence across org boundaries — not just as an implementer, but as a driver of sound, scalable technology choices.
• Clear, concise communication — you can distill complex ideas into actionable insights for engineers, PMs, and stakeholders alike.

Additional Information:

Our India/USA team has 25 engineers split into 3 pods who work closely with our Data Platform team, RQL team as well as product teams throughout the company rely on our analytical and data visualization platform in their product areas.

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.