Staff Software Engineer - Payroll Orchestration
RipplingSan Francisco, California, United States
Posted November 3, 2025
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Full Time
About the Company
Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers.
Job Description
Rippling is looking for a talented Distributed Systems Engineer to join our core payroll team and play a key role in designing and implementing the distributed systems that drive our core payroll engine for several major countries.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
- Proficiency in a modern programming language (e.g. Go, Python)
- Solid understanding of message queues and job flow systems (e.g., Temporal, Kafka)
- In-depth knowledge of concurrency control mechanisms and message ordering techniques.
- Experience with DB transactional (e.g., Mongo, PostgreSQL) and analytical query engines (e.g, Snowflake, Clickhouse), and optimizing queries for performance.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects, while also thriving in a team environment.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Benefits
- Equity