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Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience

Rippling
Seattle, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/3/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/29/2025

About Rippling

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.

About The Role

Rippling is growing exceptionally fast and we have a 800-person engineering team that ships code dozens of times every day. This role is for the Developer Experience team that manages a variety of foundational systems like CI / CD, Development environments, and staging / demo environments. It is a high-leverage and high-visibility role which will have a direct impact on Rippling's shipping velocity.

The DevX team plays a critical role in accelerating Rippling's engineering velocity, enhancing the efficiency and experience of over 1,000 engineers to help them build products faster. Our impact is measured in productivity gains, better developer UX, and cost efficiency, ensuring that engineering teams can focus on shipping high-quality features with minimal friction.

What You"ll Do

  • Develop high-quality and reliable software using Python, Golang, and other relevant programming languages
  • Experience in managing and optimizing development environments and CI infrastructure.
  • Conceive and build tools that improve engineering productivity
  • Manage the AWS Infrastructure to power the developer environments of hundreds of engineers.
  • Build relationships with the engineering teams to understand their needs and help improve their day-to-day workflows
  • Lead multi-quarter projects that tackle complex, high-impact problems requiring organizational alignment and customer buy-in.

Qualifications

  • 8 years of proven experience as a backend / infrastructure engineer
  • Deep Experience with Python, Go, or Typescript
  • Bonus Experience with Developer Experience tech (CI / CD / Docker / test frameworks / build tools / IDE plugin development)
  • Cloud technologies (AWS / Kubernetes / Terraform / MongoDB / PostgreSQL)
  • Passion for improving developer productivity and building scalable systems
  • Additional Information

    Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com

    Rippling highly values in-office collaboration. Employees living within 30 miles of an office are expected to work onsite three days a week with those living 30-49.9 miles away expected to be in the office one day a week. Employees living over 50 miles away are required to relocate within 30 miles of an office. To enhance team cohesiveness, new employees are asked to work onsite three days a week for their first six months.

    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 .

    A variety of factors are considered when determining someone's compensation–including a candidate's professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

    The pay range for this role is :

    162,000 - 283,500 USD per year(US Tier 1)

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    Salary : $162,000 - $283,500

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