Senior Staff Engineer - Global Payroll

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 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.

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Rippling is building the future of global payroll and we’re looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to help make that vision a reality. In this high-impact role, you’ll be at the center of transforming Rippling’s global payroll engineering systems, leveraging and building AI-native solutions and modern engineering practices to unify and scale payroll operations across multiple countries. You’ll play a key role in reimagining how people are getting paid what they’ve earned globally, driving the platform toward long-term goals such as filings automation, global data unification, ability to handle larger & larger enterprises, while ensuring ease of use and administration.

This is a rare opportunity to influence the architecture and design of one of Rippling’s core product pillars from the ground up. You’ll lead initiatives that span the entire development lifecycle, from defining and scoping new product functionality to rearchitecting critical systems for scale, accuracy, and performance. Whether it’s optimizing for complex, multi-country edge cases or introducing AI/ML-based solutions to implement intelligent agentic workflows, your work will directly shape the infrastructure powering one of Rippling’s largest and fastest-growing markets.

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you’ll be more than just a technical expert. You’ll be a thought partner to product, a mentor to engineers, and a strategic voice in shaping Rippling’s next billion-dollar vertical. You’ll collaborate closely with some of the most talented engineers in the company, working in a fast-moving environment where innovation, autonomy, and ownership are the norm.

At Rippling, engineers at this level are deeply embedded in product direction. You'll engage directly with users, contribute to go-to-market strategies, and become an expert in the domain. As an early member of this team, you'll also play a vital role in building team culture, process, and technical vision as we scale.

• Design and build scalable, data-driven systems that transform, normalize, and reconcile payroll data across multiple countries, entities, and currencies.
• Drive platform evolution by re-architecting critical systems for scalability, reliability, and internationalization—enabling global payroll operations at scale.
• Develop AI- and ML-driven solutions to enhance accuracy, detect anomalies, automate workflows, and minimize manual intervention.
• Define and execute a long-term architectural vision for Rippling’s global payroll…