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Staff Software Engineer - Payroll OrchestrationExecutivePlacements.com • San Francisco, CA, United States
Staff Software Engineer - Payroll Orchestration

Staff Software Engineer - Payroll Orchestration

ExecutivePlacements.com • San Francisco, CA, United States
3 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Staff Software Engineer - Payroll Orchestration

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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. Rippling is based in San Francisco, CA and has raised $1.4B+ from top investors.

About the Role

We are looking for a talented distributed systems engineer to join our core payroll team and play a key role in designing and implementing the distributed systems that drive our core payroll engine for several major countries.

What You Will 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 transactional 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 five9s uptime.

What You Will Need

  • 8+ 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.
  • 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) and 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.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer

    Rippling is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We 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 accommodations@rippling.com.

    Salary and Benefits

    This role will receive a competitive salary, benefits, and equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location. Pay range : $180,000 – $315,000 per year (US San Francisco Bay Area).

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