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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer - Events Platform - **Company:** CO-RIPPLING LLC - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $189,000.0 - $330,750.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Audit Trail, Software as a Service, Software Design Patterns, Programming Tools, Distributed Computing Environment, Distributed Data Store, Datadog, System Availability, Apache Spark, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Data Lakes, Apache Flink, Data Pipelines - **Published:** June 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9a894f0bd5147cae ## About the Role Do you have experience in System design?, * 8+ years of professional work experience as a backend engineer * Significant leadership experience driving complex cross-functional projects across teams, product managers, designers, etc * Expertise in building complex distributed services with high availability and strict SLAs * Experience building large-scale user-facing applications, APIs, and developer tools * Strong CS fundamentals, and knowledge of architecture and common design patterns * You're passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer impact * You have experience of running data processing pipelines in production using distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Spark or Flink. * Bonus points if you've built integrations with 3rd party SaaS providers and workflow orchestration systems * Bonus points if you've previously worked with AWS and have working knowledge of observability tooling ## Description The Events Platform team at Rippling builds the foundational infrastructure that powers a fully event-driven architecture across the company. As a core platform building block, the team enables systems to seamlessly emit, process, and react to events-unlocking critical capabilities like workflow automation, audit logging, and real-time product experiences. Operating at significant scale, the platform processes over a billion events per day and continues to grow at ~10% month over month, making it one of the most critical and high-impact systems within Rippling. In addition to providing core platform primitives and supporting engineering teams across the company, the team has also shipped Audit Log, a product that powers the auditing solution across Rippling. The team focuses on building highly reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly primitives that accelerate product development and ensure consistency across the ecosystem. What you will do * Lead mission-critical projects and deliver data ingestions capabilities end-to-end with high quality * Have clear ownership of one or many products, APIs or platform spaces * Work within Rippling's central infrastructure team, responsible for delivering highly scalable distributed data ingestion systems, build a data lake architecture for various downstream systems to consume * Get exposure to partners and customers in different business domains, who will help provide feedback for your product space * Ensure operational excellence and scale the platform capabilities to serve many Rippling Products * Build and grow your engineering skills in different challenging areas and solve hard technical problems * Influence architecture, technology selections, and trends of the whole company ## Related Videos - [Alibaba Big Data and Machine Learning Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/37-alibaba-big-data-and-machine-learning-technology) - [Empowering Retail Through Applied Machine Learning](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/976-empowering-retail-through-applied-machine-learning) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Debugging in the Dark](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1658-debugging-in-the-dark) - [Software Engineering Social Connection: Yubo’s lean approach to scaling an 80M-user infrastructure](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1583-software-engineering-social-connection-yubo-s-lean-approach-to-scaling-an-80m-user-infrastructure) - [Event-Driven Microservices: Patterns and Practices - Lutz Heunkhen](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1826-event-driven-microservices-patterns-and-practices-lutz-heunkhen) ## Related Articles - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Why Attend a Developer Event in 2026?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/688-why-attend-a-developer-event-in-2026) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Top Must-Visit Developer Conferences in the US in 2026](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/679-top-must-visit-developer-conferences-in-the-us-in-2026)