Senior Platform Engineer - Core Infra & Scalable Systems

Rippling; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Rippling’s Platform Engineering team acts as the invisible engine powering HR, IT, and Finance integrations. We own foundational systems and shared services that enable every engineering team to ship securely and at scale.

We seek a senior engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience in core infrastructure and distributed systems, capable of communicating complex concepts to product, design, and end users alike.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience building core product infrastructure and distributed systems that directly support and empower product‑facing engineering teams.
• You have seen and contributed to systems operating at a significant technical and organizational scale.
• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a diverse audience, not just engineers but cross functional groups like product and design, and an amplitude of end users

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
• Work closely with engineers across the organization to adopt these components to evolve existing products and bring new products to market
• Influence architecture, technology selections, and trends of the whole company
• Build and grow your engineering skills in different challenging areas and solve hard technical problems

Skills

Core infrastructure

Distributed systems

Cross-functional communication

Architecture design

Job description

Rippling’s Platform Engineering team acts as the invisible engine powering HR, IT, and Finance integrations. We own foundational systems and shared services that enable every engineering team to ship securely and at scale.

We seek a senior engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience in core infrastructure and distributed systems, capable of communicating complex concepts to product, design, and end users alike.