About Rippling

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. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.85B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the role

Rippling is growing exceptionally fast and we have a 1000+ person engineering team that ships code dozens of times every day. This role is for the Developer Experience team that manages a variety of foundational systems like CI/CD, Development environments and staging/demo environments! It is a high leverage and high visibility role which will have a direct impact on Rippling’s shipping velocity.

What You'll Do

• Design and build high-quality, reliable software and internal platforms using Python, Go, and other relevant technologies.
• Develop tools, automations, and frameworks that meaningfully improve engineering productivity and CI/CD workflows.
• Partner with product engineering teams to guide them on scalable system design, reliability best practices, and performance improvements.
• Build strong cross-team relationships to deeply understand developer pain points and deliver friction-reducing solutions.
• Contribute to evolving Rippling’s architecture as the company scales, making systems more resilient, observable, and efficient.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience as a Backend, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineer.
• Strong foundation in building distributed systems in production environments.
• Experience with CI/CD systems, developer tooling, or platform engineering (bonus).
• Hands-on experience with cloud environments (AWS preferred) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), observability tools, and systems debugging.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python or Go preferred).
• Passion for improving developer productivity, simplifying complex systems, and building reliable platforms.

If you don’t meet all of the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply. No job description is perfect, and we might find an even more suitable opportunity that matches your skills and experience.