Senior Staff Software Engineer - HRIS

Rippling is rapidly expanding its global footprint and product ecosystem, and the HRIS (Human Resources Information System) is at the center of that growth. Every Rippling product-from Payroll and Benefits to Time and Identity-depends on HRIS as its source of truth.

As a Senior Staff Engineer spanning the entire HRIS org, you will serve as a technical leader responsible for both the foundational platform primitives and the complex product experiences built on top of them. You'll design and scale the systems that power HRIS globally while also owning the end-to-end engineering of mission-critical workflows relied on by millions of employees and administrators. This role requires broad technical vision, deep hands-on execution, and the ability to influence across multiple teams and functions.

What you will do

• Set and drive the technical strategy for the HRIS org, defining long-term direction for architecture, scalability, reliability, and usability across both platform and product surfaces.
• Design and deliver core data models, APIs, services, and abstractions that underpin HRIS and are adopted broadly across product teams.
• Own end-to-end engineering of critical HRIS product flows (e.g. hiring, onboarding, benefits, time, compliance), ensuring robustness, performance, and extensibility.
• Lead cross-org initiatives such as global scale-out, regulatory compliance, and high-availability architecture that cut across multiple teams.
• Raise the engineering bar by influencing design and execution across the org, mentoring senior engineers, and driving best practices in both system design and product engineering.
• Collaborate closely with engineering leadership across HRIS and adjacent domains to align technical vision and deliver cohesive solutions.

Do you have experience in System design?, * 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including technical leadership roles driving org-wide impact.

• Strong track record spanning both platform and product engineering: designing distributed systems and building complex, user-facing applications at scale.
• Expertise in system architecture, data modeling, and service design, with an ability to balance long-term vision with iterative delivery.
• Experience operating in high-growth, fast-paced environments where platform primitives and product requirements evolve rapidly.
• Strong technical leadership and mentorship skills, with proven influence across multiple teams and organizations.

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.

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 $1.4B+ 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.