Senior Software Engineer - Identity Platform

Senior Software Engineer, Identity Platform

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 $1.2B 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

The Identity team’s mission is to provide a single source of truth for authentication and security policy management across all user types and applications, giving customers the confidence to endlessly scale their organization on Rippling.

We’re looking for a technical leader who will be responsible for building highly scalable and reliable authentication infrastructure that powers all Rippling products, as well as building products that empower our customers to seamlessly connect to the external applications they use on a daily basis.

This team owns various domain-related products :

• Identity and access management
• Multi-factor authentication
• Single sign-on
• Password manager
• Authentication settings
• Authentication risk analysis
• Activity logging, etc.

What You'll Do :

• Help design, build and scale the next generation of Rippling’s authentication services, which have the highest uptime requirement of Rippling products
• Work closely with stakeholders and management to define and deliver the team’s strategic roadmap
• Apply industry-leading technologies to secure our customers
• Solve complex problems which are unique for Rippling
• Provide leadership and ownership over multiple product spaces
• Advocate for user experience by connecting to the different company partners and our end-users
• Learn and understand how your product can help Rippling continually differentiate itself

Qualifications :

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in technical lead or architect roles
• Experience building highly available, highly scalable platforms that power multiple products
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing them
• Passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer impact
• Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in written and verbal modes
• Passionate about mentoring and upleveling team members
• Preferred experience (but not required) in our technology stack - Python, Django, Golang, React, MongoDB, AWS
• Bonus points if you’ve had direct experience with the Identity domain
10 days ago