Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Infra & Scale

Rippling; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Office-based role

Job summary

Rippling's Platform Engineering team powers HR, IT, and Finance by building core infrastructure, tools, and shared services. This role focuses on designing and implementing backend services and APIs that drive product capabilities with reliability and security at scale.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, and platform teams to translate goals into robust technical solutions, mentor engineers, and raise coding standards across the backend.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production experience in Python, Go, or a similar backend language.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, data modeling, and performance optimization of relational databases.
• Experience contributing to systems operating at large technical and organizational scale.
• Strong CS fundamentals and ability to deliver complex projects.
• Exceptional communication with technical and cross‑functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and implementation of core backend services and APIs powering product capabilities and complex business logic.
• Ensure systems are built for high-volume scale, reliability, and security, making strategic infrastructure decisions.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and platform teams to translate feature goals into robust, high‑performance solutions.
• Elevate the team's technical standards, lead code and design reviews, and mentor engineers on backend best practices.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

CS fundamentals

Technical communication

Tools

Python

Go

Relational databases

Job description

Rippling's Platform Engineering team powers HR, IT, and Finance by building core infrastructure, tools, and shared services. This role focuses on designing and implementing backend services and APIs that drive product capabilities with reliability and security at scale.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, and platform teams to translate goals into robust technical solutions, mentor engineers, and raise coding standards across the backend.