Senior Backend Engineer — Data Cloud & AI Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Benefits

Job summary

Rippling is seeking an experienced backend engineer for the Data Cloud team in San Francisco. You will work on distributed processing engines and large-scale data platforms, delivering high-quality backend software using Python and modern data tech stacks.

The role emphasizes autonomy, mentoring, and collaboration with architects and senior developers to ship impactful analytics and data management features.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in backend engineering roles.
• Experience writing testable and performant backend code.
• Experience mentoring less-experienced developers.
• Ability to thrive with autonomy to explore creative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work on distributed processing engines and databases.
• Develop high-quality backend software using Python, MongoDB, Kafka.
• Leverage big data tech (Aurora, Trino, Presto, Pinot, Iceberg, Flink).
• Build data platforms and data ingestion systems at scale.
• Design, develop, test software and user-facing experiences.
• Collaborate with architects and senior developers on state-of-the-art work.
• Contribute to product design discussions and implementation choices.
• Find unique solutions from ideation to production.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Mentoring

Autonomy

Distributed systems

Tools

MongoDB

Kafka

Aurora

Trino

Presto

Flink

Iceberg

Job description

Rippling is seeking an experienced backend engineer for the Data Cloud team in San Francisco. You will work on distributed processing engines and large-scale data platforms, delivering high-quality backend software using Python and modern data tech stacks.

The role emphasizes autonomy, mentoring, and collaboration with architects and senior developers to ship impactful analytics and data management features.