Staff Software Engineer - Global Payroll Engineering San Francisco, CA

Company: Rippling
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: October 29, 2024

Job Description:

Staff Software Engineer - Global Payroll About Rippling Rippling is the first way for businesses to manage all of their HR & IT-payroll, benefits, computers, apps, and more-in one unified workforce platform. By connecting every business system to one source of truth for employee data, businesses can automate all of the manual work they normally need to do to make employee changes. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can just click a button and set up a new employees' payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps-like Slack, Zoom, and Office 365-all within 90 seconds. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B 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. We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses. At Rippling, Engineering is at the heart of our business and culture. As a Product Engineer in Payroll, you will be a part of a team of 40+ engineers who build and maintain one of the leading payroll services in the USA (we process $6 Billion every year! ). With knowledge of the general mobile landscape, current user preferences, and emerging technologies, you will work alongside the product management team and cross-functional teams (Product Engineer, Infra, Hub, Sales, etc) to develop robust, well-designed products. Your work will ensure that our 10,000+ customers have a seamless payroll experience. What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and implement distributed systems with a strong platform mindset
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
• Demonstrate expertise in concurrency control mechanisms and message ordering techniques to ensure data consistency in payroll processing
• Utilize message queues and job flow systems (e.g Temporal) to orchestrate complex workflows related to payroll engine and payments processing, guaranteeing message delivery and job execution
• Develop efficient data pipelines utilizing different transcational and analytical query engines to deliver fast data aggregates that power the payroll engine
• Leverage bitemporal data modeling techniques to effectively manage payroll data flows
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional engineering teams to align on strategic goals and ensure successful project delivery.
• Observability: Implement comprehensive observability practices, including monitoring, logging, and tracing, to ensure system health and performance
• Resiliency and SLAs: Develop and maintain critical payroll platform systems with high availability and reliability, targeting four or five 9s uptime. Qualifications
  • 6+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
  • Proficiency in a modern programming language (e.g. Go, Python)
  • Comfortable at developing scalable and extendable core services and primitives with good abstractions that are used in many product flows
  • You have seen systems operating at a significant organizational scale
  • Solid understanding of message queues and job flow systems (e.g., Temporal, Kafka)
  • In-depth knowledge of concurrency control mechanisms and message ordering techniques
  • Experience with DB transactional (e.g., Mongo, PostgreSQL), analytical query engines (e.g, Snowflake, Clickhouse), and optimizing queries for performance
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects, while also thriving in a team environment 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 having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a 40 mile radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.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.
    • Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, HSA, Commuter, Life and Disability Benefits
    • Uncapped PTO and flexible work hours
    • Generous parental leave
    • Fun, casual atmosphere and meeting-light cultureThe pay range for this role is:162,000 - 283,500 USD per year (US Tier 1)
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