Senior Data Platform Engineer for ML & Analytics

Rippling (Netherlands); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive compensation package

Benefits

Job summary

Rippling’s Data Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure, tools, and integrations that enable teams across the company to independently deliver reliable data processing, analytics, ML, and AI workflows.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to work across core data and ML infrastructure, workflow orchestration, data integrations and movement, distributed data access, and production systems for ML and agent workloads.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building backend systems and data platforms.
• Proven record of owning and delivering complex technical projects.
• Strong hands-on coding skills in a backend or systems language.
• Experience building and operating production data platforms across data warehouses and lakehouses.
• Experience with workflow orchestration systems and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate infrastructure for reliable, scalable data, analytics, ML, and AI workflows.
• Develop reusable workflow and integration capabilities across platforms.
• Create data access and query capabilities across warehouses, lakehouses, and operational systems.
• Build reusable platform capabilities for long-running workflows, including orchestration, retries, observability, and delivery.
• Strengthen data security with least-privilege access, short-lived identities, masking, and audit controls.
• Improve platform reliability, data quality, performance, cost, observability, and developer experience.
• Lead projects from technical design through production operation and incident response.
• Partner with product, engineering, data science, and business teams to turn needs into durable platform features.
• Help set technical direction and raise engineering standards.

Skills

Backend systems development

Distributed systems

Infrastructure design

Data platforms

Cloud & Kubernetes

Data access & security

Communications

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

StarRocks

Iceberg

Delta Lake

Spark

Glue

EMR

Dagster

Airflow

Prefect

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Rippling’s Data Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure, tools, and integrations that enable teams across the company to independently deliver reliable data processing, analytics, ML, and AI workflows.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to work across core data and ML infrastructure, workflow orchestration, data integrations and movement, distributed data access, and production systems for ML and agent workloads.