Staff Software Engineer - Rippling AI

About the role

This includes background agents, automated workflows, evaluation systems, data pipelines, model-quality loops, sandboxing, scaling, latency, reliability, and platform primitives that other product teams can build on. As a Staff Software Engineer , you will operate as a hands-on technical leader. You will own ambiguous platform problems, lead cross-functional initiatives, shape architecture, and continue to write/review/debug production code.

What you'll do

• Own major AI Platform initiatives across backend, platform, infrastructure, and AI-enabled systems
• Lead design and execution for systems supporting agents, evals, automation, data pipelines, model quality, sandboxing, scaling, latency, and reliability
• Act as a technical lead for cross-functional work involving Product, Infra, Platform, AI, and Engineering teams
• Break down ambiguous technical problems into clear architecture and execution plans
• Write code, review critical code paths, debug production issues, and make implementation-level decisions

What you need

• 10–15 yrs of experience
• Python
• Java
• System design
• C++
• Go
• C#
• Any graduate

Good to have

• SQL
• LLMs
• Scala
• Data modelling
• Machine learning
• Kotlin