Staff Software Engineer - Payroll Orchestration

Rippling is a company that gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. They are looking for a talented Distributed Systems Engineer to join their core payroll team and play a key role in designing and implementing the distributed systems that drive their 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)
• Comfortable at developing scalable and extendable core services and primitives with good abstractions that are used in many product flows
• 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