Staff Software Engineer - Events Platform (High Scale)

Rippling

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Rippling is seeking an experienced backend engineer to lead data ingestion projects within its Events Platform. You will own product spaces, design scalable APIs, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-availability services at scale.

You will work with Spark or Flink and AWS, driving architecture choices and platform evolution. The role emphasizes operational excellence, cross-functional leadership, and delivering value to Rippling’s products and customers while growing your technical

Qualifications

8+ years of professional work experience as a backend engineer.
Experience driving complex cross-functional projects with product managers and designers.
Expertise in building complex distributed services with high availability and SLAs.
Experience building large-scale user-facing applications, APIs, and developer tools.

Responsibilities

Lead mission-critical projects and deliver data ingestions capabilities end-to-end with high quality.
Own one or more products, APIs or platform spaces.
Build scalable data ingestion systems and a data lake architecture for downstream consumers.
Collaborate with partners and customers across business domains for feedback.
Ensure operational excellence and scale platform capabilities for Rippling products.
Grow engineering skills and solve challenging technical problems.
Influence architecture and technology decisions across the company.