Senior Staff Software Engineer

About the role

As our product surface area and engineering organization continue to scale, platform reliability, performance, and consistency must be built into the system by default. We are hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer (L9) to provide technical leadership for the backend and full-stack foundations of Rippling’s UI Platform.

What you'll do

• Define and enforce architectural boundaries and contracts that isolate critical paths from product code to reduce blast radius
• Establish performance budgets, tooling and automated enforcement to detect and prevent performance and reliability regressions before they reach production
• Drive the evolution of configuration-driven platforms that replace bespoke implementations with scalable, reusable foundations
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across UI Platform (30+ engineers) and influence the broader Platform org
• Act as the architectural authority for UI Platform initiatives - setting direction, reviewing designs, and making high-impact technical decisions

What you need

• 15–27 yrs of experience
• Java
• Python
• Data modelling
• Incident response
• Any graduate