AI-Driven Global Payroll Platform Engineer

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 315,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling, based in San Francisco, is hiring Staff Engineers to redefine global payroll infrastructure and automation. You will design scalable platform components that empower international payroll launches with speed and precision, and you will shape the architectural blueprint for future expansion.

You will blend AI-native workflows with deterministic backend systems to ensure accuracy, performance, and compliance at scale, enabling country teams to spin up payroll in new markets quickly and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Expertise in architecting scalable distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on coding and active codebase contributions.
• Ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives.
• Experience with AI-native or agentic workflows is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Architect for Global Expansion: Design and build platform infrastructure that enables country expansion teams to deploy Rippling Payroll into new international markets with minimal friction.
• AI-Driven Workflows: Merge LLMs with deterministic code to create conversational setup experiences with high accuracy and compliance.
• Deconstruct Complexity: Translate diverse regulatory frameworks into clean backend systems and product UX.
• Scale the Platform: Own core transactional components, optimize for scale, availability, and data integrity.

Skills

Distributed systems

Platform architecture

Hands-on coding

Cross-functional leadership

Communication skills

Job description

Rippling, based in San Francisco, is hiring Staff Engineers to redefine global payroll infrastructure and automation. You will design scalable platform components that empower international payroll launches with speed and precision, and you will shape the architectural blueprint for future expansion.

You will blend AI-native workflows with deterministic backend systems to ensure accuracy, performance, and compliance at scale, enabling country teams to spin up payroll in new markets quickly and