Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer — Scale & Kubernetes

Rippling

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 190,000 - 270,000

Full time

14 days+

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Rippling is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Cloud Infrastructure team to architect and scale our infrastructure as we expand globally. You will lead design initiatives across Kubernetes fleets, multi-region disaster recovery, and AI-driven workflows, driving consensus across engineering and defining scalable, self-service primitives for product teams.

The role emphasizes deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed systems, with a focus on delivering resilient, scalable platforms

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of architecting and scaling infrastructure.
  • Strong understanding that infrastructure empowers developers and end-users.
  • Deep experience with distributed systems and handling extreme load.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement next-generation cloud infrastructure to support 4x load growth.
  • Own evolution of the Kubernetes ecosystem for monoliths and growing microservices.
  • Build infrastructure primitives to accelerate product feature delivery.
  • Tackle high-order problems like global consistency and high-throughput processing.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure teams to manage complex distributed systems.

Skills

Kubernetes
Distributed systems
AWS
Backend languages (Python/Go/Java)
Architectural thinking
Technical communication
Product development mindset

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Cloud Infrastructure team to architect and scale our infrastructure as we expand globally. You will lead design initiatives across Kubernetes fleets, multi-region disaster recovery, and AI-driven workflows, driving consensus across engineering and defining scalable, self-service primitives for product teams.

The role emphasizes deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed systems, with a focus on delivering resilient, scalable platforms

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