Software Engineer II, Backend - Data Cloud

Software Engineer II, Backend - Data Cloud

Rippling – Seattle, Washington, United States

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.

Rippling Data Cloud is a new suite of products that aggregates data from across your company into Rippling, connects it to worker identity, and makes it available for analysis, visualization and action. It preserves and enriches data context to enable precise and accurate answers to your most important and nuanced business questions.

It is a complete data stack including data connectors, transformations, visualizations, AI‑powered analytics, and even inbound Zero‑Copy.

• Analytics – The reporting and dashboarding products that let users visualize and analyze data within Rippling.
• Data Access – Owns the query engine (RQL – Rippling Query Language) that powers data retrieval across the platform. Includes sub‑teams for query execution, ingestion, and history.
• Data Management – Owns the metadata and data catalog layer – how data assets are discovered, governed, and documented.
• Ingest & Prep – Brings external data into Rippling – includes managed connectors and transformations.
• Insights – A newer area focused on surfacing actionable insights from data.

• Own the design and implementation of core backend services and APIs that power critical product capabilities and complex business logic.
• Ensure all systems are built for high‑volume scale, reliability, and security, making strategic decisions about infrastructure and data integrity.
• Work seamlessly with product, frontend, and platform teams to translate feature goals into robust, high‑performance technical solutions.
• Elevate the team’s technical standards, lead code and design reviews, and mentor engineers on backend best practices.

• 2+ years of experience in a production environment using Python, Go, or a similar high‑scale backend language.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, data modeling, and performance optimization of relational databases.
• Experience contributing to systems operating at significant technical and organizational scale.
• Strong understanding of CS/algorithms fundamentals and experience with complex project delivery.
• Exceptional communication skills with technical and cross‑functional stakeholders.

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

Rippling highly values having employees working in‑office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office‑based employees (those who live within a 40‑mile radius of a Rippling office), working in the office at least three days a week is considered an essential function of the employee’s role.

Salary: $135,000 – $225,000 USD per year (US Tier
1). This role will also receive benefits and equity.