Staff Software Engineer, Global Filings

At Rippling, engineers at the Staff level are deeply embedded in product direction. Youll engage directly with users, contribute to go-to-market strategies, and become an expert in the domain. As an early member of this team, youll also play a vital role in building team culture, process, and technical vision as we scale.

What you will do

• Design and build scalable, data-driven systems that transform, normalize, and reconcile payroll data across multiple countries, entities, and currencies.

• Drive platform evolution by re-architecting critical systems for scalability, reliability, and internationalization-enabling global payroll operations at scale.

• Develop AI- and ML-driven solutions to enhance accuracy, detect anomalies, automate workflows, and minimize manual intervention.

• Define and execute a long-term architectural vision for Rippling's global payroll platform, balancing innovation with compliance, stability, and performance.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, finance, legal, compliance, data, and operations teams to deliver cohesive and compliant solutions.

• Champion customer-focused engineering, ensuring technical solutions directly drive operational excellence and user impact.

• Mentor and lead engineers, fostering high standards of technical quality, thoughtful design, and engineering best practices.

• Influence and align stakeholders across multiple teams and time zones, communicating clearly to drive shared product and technical goals.

• 8+ years of experience building and scaling production systems (Python, Django, React, MongoDB, AWS).

• Proven ability to architect, own, and deliver complex, platform-scale projects end to end.

• Strong background in data modeling, system design, and modern architecture patterns.

• Experience or keen interest in applying AI/ML for automation and intelligent data systems.

• Deep platform sensibility-building extensible, compliant solutions for multiple countries.

• Track record of modernizing legacy systems and driving large-scale transformation.

• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

• Product mindset with focus on impact, reliability, and customer value.

• Proactive, growth-oriented approach with passion for solving complex global challenges.

In this high-impact role, you'll be at the center of transforming Rippling's global payroll data systems - leveraging AI-driven solutions and modern engineering practices to unify and scale payroll operations across multiple countries. You'll play a key role in reimagining how global payroll data is processed, validated, and merged, driving the platform toward long-term goals such as filings automation, global data unification, and the decommissioning of legacy systems. This is a rare opportunity to influence the architecture and design of one of Rippling's core product pillars from the ground up. You'll lead initiatives that span the entire development lifecycle, from defining and scoping new product functionality to rearchitecting critical systems for scale, accuracy, and performance. Whether it's optimizing for complex, multi-country edge cases or introducing AI/ML-based solutions for intelligent data transformation, your work will directly shape the infrastructure powering one of Rippling's largest and fastest-growing markets. As a Staff Engineer, you'll be more than just a technical expert. You'll be a thought partner to product, a mentor to engineers, and a strategic voice in shaping Rippling's next billion-dollar vertical. You'll collaborate closely with some of the most talented engineers in the company, working in a fast-moving environment where innovation, autonomy, and ownership are the norm.