Staff Payroll Systems Engineer

Lead payroll calculation architecture at Rippling in San Francisco, building distributed systems with accuracy, auditability, and global scale.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will shape mission-critical payroll infrastructure and write production code. Your work spans data modeling, databases, caching, reliability, and explainable calculation frameworks. You will connect technical direction with customer outcomes while supporting enterprise payroll across jurisdictions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture and technical strategy for payroll calculation systems
• Write critical production code for high-impact technical initiatives
• Design configurable, versioned, testable calculation frameworks
• Improve distributed systems, performance, caching, and reliability
• Mentor engineers across payroll calculation areas

Requirements:

• Staff-level experience scaling complex production systems
• Strong architecture, data modeling, and distributed systems fundamentals
• Experience setting technical direction across multiple teams
• Strong product judgment connecting platforms to customer outcomes
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Bring staff-level engineering leadership to Rippling’s accurate, explainable, and dependable payroll calculation platform.