Staff Software Engineer — Global Payroll Platform

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Competitive salary

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the payroll processing platform. You will own architecture, scalability, and long-term technical direction for services processing billions monthly, across countries.

You will mentor engineers, drive design reviews, and collaborate with Product, Payments, and Risk teams. Requirements include 8+ years in software engineering, expertise in large-scale distributed backends, Python and Django, and experience with MongoDB or similar NoSQL databases.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with senior/leadership experience.
• Experience with large-scale distributed backend systems.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and lead design reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for next-gen payroll processing engine across countries.
• Own end-to-end delivery of high-impact features from design to production.
• Drive technical roadmap, address performance and reliability bottlenecks.
• Mentor engineers and lead design reviews across teams.
• Collaborate with Product, Payments, Risk and Accounting to deliver platform-wide solutions.

Skills

Backend architecture

Python

Django

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Tools

MongoDB

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the payroll processing platform. You will own architecture, scalability, and long-term technical direction for services processing billions monthly, across countries.

You will mentor engineers, drive design reviews, and collaborate with Product, Payments, and Risk teams. Requirements include 8+ years in software engineering, expertise in large-scale distributed backends, Python and Django, and experience with MongoDB or similar NoSQL databases.