Staff Software Engineer - Dependency Tracking

Rippling is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Dependency Tracking to lead the Technical Roadmap for our dependency tracking system, building a distributed system to determine what needs to be recomputed when the object graph changes, ensuring Rippling remains performant as data volume grows by orders of magnitude.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Significant time spent on core infrastructure or platform teams
• Deep Distributed Systems Expertise
• Stream Processing Pro: Hands-on experience with Apache Flink (or similar frameworks like Spark Streaming/Kafka Streams)
• Low-Level Enthusiast: Building robust internal systems over user-facing product features
• Language Agnostic: Proficiency in Python and Java (or a strong desire to master them)
• Algorithmic Depth: Experience with graph theory or complex dependency mapping is a major plus

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Benefits
• Equity