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# Senior Software Engineer, Backend - RQL

- **Company:** CO-RIPPLING LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $168,000.0 - $280,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data Infrastructure, Data Stores, Query Languages, Distributed Computing Environment, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), MongoDB, Data Ingestion, Backend, Data Lakes, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Presto, Programming Languages
- **Published:** May 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e481e874519f92a8

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Programming languages?, * 6+ years experience in backend engineering roles

 * Experience writing testable and performant backend code
 * Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
 * Experience mentoring less-experienced developers
 * Ability to thrive in an environment that grants you a lot of autonomy to explore creative solutions

## Description

The Platform team is responsible for developing core services and cross-cutting products that form the building blocks at Rippling. Other engineering teams at Rippling leverage these fundamental Lego blocks to create complex products on top of them.

The team owns the analytics, customizable workflows, data platform, reporting, permissions, and custom fields products. All these projects have customer-facing product components and core platform components supporting 10+ product teams. This is a unique opportunity to work on both product and platform layers at the same time.

At Rippling, we want users to configure and customize our features/products without complexity. Therefore, we've created a new language called Rippling Query Language (RQL) which allows our customers to write Queries and scripts to create Formula Fields inside of our analytics suite, applications in Data Cloud and extend functionality elsewhere across Rippling.

RQL internally has its own grammar, parser, query translator, distributed query processing engine, and a distributed datastore. You will work on challenging technical challenges like distributed systems and big data technologies.

What You'll Do

 * Work on distributed processing engines and distributed databases
 * Develop high-quality software with attention to detail using tech stacks like Python, MongoDB, CDC, and Kafka
 * Leverage big data technologies like Aurora, Trino, Presto, Pinot, Iceberg, Flink and more.
 * Build custom programming languages within the Rippling Platform
 * Create data platforms, data lakes, and data ingestion systems that work at scale
 * Design, develop, code, and test software systems, improvements, products, and user-facing experiences
 * Work alongside software architects and senior developers doing state-of-the-art development work
 * Contribute to product design and implementation discussions
 * Find and build unique solutions to implement projects from the idea phase to production


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