Staff Software Engineer - Unity Infrastructure

About Rippling

Rippling is the first way for businesses to manage all of their HR & IT payroll, benefits, computers, apps, and more in one unified workforce platform.

By connecting every business system to one source of truth for employee data, businesses can automate all of the manual work they normally need to do to make employee changes.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can just click a button and set up a new employee"s payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps like Slack, Zoom, and Office 365 all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B 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"s special sauce is its ability to automatically react and understand changes and connections across many systems.

Rippling developed Unity, a major platform that connects systems traditionally reliant on bespoke integrations or, in worse cases, spreadsheets.

These systems encompass payroll, device management, and others.

The next phase of Unity focuses on universal objects, where all objects customer-defined data, first-party developer data, or third-party developer data should attain the status of first-class citizens.

This parallels the creation of a new type of database. Additionally, enabling next-generation product development. If you find solving these types of problems at scale exhilarating, this role is highly likely to be a perfect fit for you.

As part of this role, you will build and operate T0 fundamental services that empower engineers to develop software with step function-inducing capabilities.

This implies both active software development, as well as deep infrastructure work. Your work will bring about transformative changes in software development practices at Rippling.

What You"ll Do :

Constructing a unified query layer for accessing data across multiple storage layers.

Defining our observability strategy and implementing aggressive SLAs and driving toward them

Managing resources to facilitate the servicing of high scale analytical and transactional workloads.

Establishing a generic data persistence layer that spans across Rippling"s entire technology stack (similar to building GCP Firebase).

Qualifications

8+ years of software engineering experience

Deep experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and resource management.

Knowledge of the AWS ecosystem.

Preferred experience in building out large scale product infrastructures / platforms.

Preferred experience in our technology stack- Python, Django, Golang, React, MongoDB, Trino, Presto, Pinot, Kafka, AWS.

Ability to thrive in an dynamic environment by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing them.

A track record of influencing and enabling forward-thinking technology decisions across a wide organization.

Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in written and verbal modes.

Additional Information :

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process.

To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com.

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.

For office-based employees (employees who live within a 40 mile radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee"s role.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location;

see which tier applies to your location here . A variety of factors are considered when determining someone's compensation including a candidate's professional background, experience, and location.

Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

The pay range for this role is :

162,000 - 283,500 USD per year(US Tier 1)

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