Senior Backend AI Platform Engineer — Scale Workflows

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Employee benefits

Equity

Job summary

Rippling is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend for Rippling AI in San Francisco Bay Area. You will own end-to-end AI platform initiatives, architect scalable agent infrastructure, and collaborate across product, infra, and platform teams to deliver high-impact solutions.

You will mentor engineers, drive observable, self-correcting systems, and help shape the next generation of autonomous enterprise software.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record.
• Experience in platform and distributed systems engineering.
• Hands-on coding with high output in the codebase.
• Experience driving end-to-end technical initiatives.
• Strong product instincts and collaboration with product teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Comfort with ambiguity and high velocity.
• Recent hands-on experience building AI agents is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical design and implementation for high-impact AI platform initiatives from design through production.
• Collaborate closely with engineers across product, infra, and platform organizations.
• Build scalable agent infrastructure that automates repetitive, high-frequency workflows across Rippling's product surface.
• Design systems that are observable, self‑correcting, and capable of improving over time with minimal human intervention.
• Develop harness and platform capabilities that encode business logic and institutional knowledge into reliable, automated workflows.
• Partner closely with Product to ensure AI‑powered surfaces are trustworthy, controllable, and intuitive for end users and admins.
• Mentor junior engineers, contribute to best practices for AI platform development, and raise the technical bar on your team.
• Track the frontier, translate model capability improvements into architectural decisions and move quickly when new approaches unlock better outcomes.

Skills

5+ years experience

Platform & distributed systems

Hands-on coding

End-to-end initiatives

Product instincts

Clear communication

Ambiguity tolerance

AI agents experience

Job description

Rippling is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend for Rippling AI in San Francisco Bay Area. You will own end-to-end AI platform initiatives, architect scalable agent infrastructure, and collaborate across product, infra, and platform teams to deliver high-impact solutions.

You will mentor engineers, drive observable, self-correcting systems, and help shape the next generation of autonomous enterprise software.