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# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

- **Company:** CO-RIPPLING LLC
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $207,000.0 - $345,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Continuous Integration, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, System Programming, Cloud Platform System, Build Tools
- **Published:** June 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b4bc1ca36c1fe2ff

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Systems engineering?, * 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience operating at the Staff or Senior Staff level

 * Deep expertise building and scaling distributed systems in high-growth technology companies
 * Strong backend engineering fundamentals and fluency in modern systems programming and application development
 * Experience shaping architecture and technical strategy across large engineering organizations
 * A track record of leading multi-year, cross-organizational technical initiatives from inception through execution
 * Strong product intuition and a passion for understanding developer needs and building exceptional developer experiences
 * Experience building platforms, infrastructure, developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or large-scale engineering productivity solutions
 * Comfort operating in highly ambiguous environments where the right answer has not yet been defined
 * Exceptional communication and influence skills, with the ability to align senior technical and executive stakeholders
 * Curiosity and excitement about how AI will transform software development over the next decade

## Description

* Define and execute the long-term technical vision for Rippling's Developer Experience platform
 * Architect the next generation of AI-native engineering workflows across a 1,000+ engineer organization
 * Own and evolve critical development infrastructure, including local and cloud environments, CI/CD systems, repository architecture, test infrastructure, build systems, and agent execution environments
 * Design systems that allow both engineers and AI agents to safely, reliably, and efficiently develop software at scale
 * Identify and eliminate systemic sources of friction that impact engineering productivity across the company
 * Make high-leverage architectural decisions that influence hundreds of engineers and dozens of product organizations
 * Lead large-scale technical transformations that span 100+ teams and millions of lines of code
 * Establish technical standards and patterns that balance developer autonomy with platform consistency
 * Partner closely with Infrastructure, Platform, AI, and Product Engineering leaders to solve company-wide challenges
 * Dive deep into complex systems and codebases when necessary, driving clarity in ambiguous technical situations
 * Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization


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