Senior Platform Engineer: Core Infra and Global Scale

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling’s Platform Engineering team powers the HR, IT, and Finance products that run a unified workforce system. You will design, implement, and evolve core platform infrastructure and shared services to scale for thousands of engineers.

You will lead mission-critical projects, influence architecture and technology choices, and collaborate with engineers, product, and design to bring new products to market.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building core platform infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Experience operating at scale and supporting product-facing teams.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-engineers and cross-functional groups.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design, implementation, and evolution of core platform infrastructure and shared services.
• Lead mission critical projects to build and scale core platform capabilities.
• Collaborate with engineers across the organization to adopt components and evolve products.
• Influence architecture, technology choices, and trends across the company.
• Develop your engineering skills by solving challenging problems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cross-functional communication

Engineering collaboration

Job description

Rippling’s Platform Engineering team powers the HR, IT, and Finance products that run a unified workforce system. You will design, implement, and evolve core platform infrastructure and shared services to scale for thousands of engineers.

You will lead mission-critical projects, influence architecture and technology choices, and collaborate with engineers, product, and design to bring new products to market.