Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Position: Senior Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Rippling Full  Timestaff Seattle, Washington, USPosted Yesterday##

Role Overview Rippling is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure. This is a full-time role in Seattle, Washington. Part of Rippling's Lifecycle hiring, posted yesterday. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.## Resume Keywords to Include Make sure these keywords appear in your resume to improve ATS scoringCI/CDORDesign Systems Compensation Benefits Onboarding Bar Rippling Sign  up free to auto-tailor your resume with all these keywords and get a higher ATS score## Job description

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.

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The Role Software engineering is undergoing its biggest transformation in decades.

AI agents are no longer simply assisting developers—they are becoming active participants in how software is designed, written, tested, reviewed, and deployed. The tools, workflows, and platforms that powered the last generation of software development will not be the same ones that power the next.

We're looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to help define what that future looks like s is not a traditional Developer Experience role. You will own the architectural direction for how over 1,000 engineers—and increasingly thousands of AI agents—interact with one of the largest and fastest-growing codebases in the industry. You will shape the systems that determine how software gets built across the company, from local development environments and CI/CD pipelines to agent sandboxes, testing infrastructure, repository architecture, and AI-native development workflows.

The impact of this role is difficult to overstate. The decisions you make will influence engineering productivity across 100+ teams and directly affect Rippling's ability to innovate and ship products faster than any competitor in the market.

You'll work on problems that very few companies in the world are facing today:
* What does a world-class development environment look like when AI agents generate a significant percentage of production code?
* How should repositories, build systems, and testing frameworks evolve when humans are no longer the primary interface to a codebase?
* How do you maintain velocity across hundreds of teams while preserving architectural coherence?
* How do you create leverage for thousands of engineers through a handful of foundational platform decisions?

If you're excited by the opportunity to shape the future of software development at company scale, we'd love to talk.

What You Will Do
* Define and execute the long-term technical vision for Rippling's Developer Experience platform
* Architect the next generation of AI-native engineering workflows across a 1,000+ engineer organization
* Own and evolve critical development infrastructure, including local and cloud environments, CI/CD systems, repository architecture, test infrastructure, build systems, and agent execution environments
* Design systems that allow both engineers and AI agents to safely, reliably, and efficiently develop software at scale
* Identify and eliminate systemic sources of friction that impact engineering productivity across the company
* Make high-leverage architectural decisions that influence…