Senior Backend Engineer, Data Cloud & AI — Equity

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

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a senior backend engineer to join the Data Cloud team in San Francisco. You will build distributed systems using Python, MongoDB, Kafka, and modern data tech like Trino/Presto and Iceberg, while mentoring junior engineers and owning components end-to-end.

You will work in a fast-paced environment with autonomy to explore creative solutions, contribute to architecture, and ship scalable data platforms and insights for Rippling’s AI-powered Data Cloud products.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Proven ability to write testable, performant backend code.
• Experience mentoring less-experienced developers and working autonomously.

Responsibilities

• Work on distributed processing engines and distributed databases.
• Develop high-quality software with attention to detail using tech stacks like Python, MongoDB, CDC, and Kafka.
• Leverage big data technologies like Aurora, Trino, Presto, Pinot, Iceberg, Flink and more.
• Build custom programming languages within the Rippling Platform.
• Create data platforms, data lakes, and data ingestion systems that work at scale.
• Design, develop, code, and test software systems, improvements, products, and user-facing experiences.
• Work alongside software architects and senior developers doing state-of-the-art development work.
• Contribute to product design and implementation discussions.
• Find and build unique solutions to implement projects from the idea phase to production.

Skills

Backend engineering

Mentoring less-experienced developers

Autonomy to explore solutions

Tools

Python

MongoDB

CDC

Kafka

Aurora

Trino

Presto

Pinot

Iceberg

Flink

Job description

Rippling is seeking a senior backend engineer to join the Data Cloud team in San Francisco. You will build distributed systems using Python, MongoDB, Kafka, and modern data tech like Trino/Presto and Iceberg, while mentoring junior engineers and owning components end-to-end.

You will work in a fast-paced environment with autonomy to explore creative solutions, contribute to architecture, and ship scalable data platforms and insights for Rippling’s AI-powered Data Cloud products.