Rippling
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - IT Product
$159K–$278K
Seattle, WA +1 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Nov 13, 2025
- Location
- Seattle, WA
San Francisco, CA - Experience
- 5+ years in a production environment using Python, Go, or a similar high-scale backend language.
About the job
Builds and leads backend services and APIs for Rippling’s IT product, supporting device, application-access, asset-management, and security capabilities at scale.
What you'll do
- Design and implement core backend services and APIs for product capabilities and complex business logic.
- Make infrastructure and data-integrity decisions to ensure systems scale reliably and securely.
- Lead technical reviews and mentor engineers while partnering with product, frontend, and platform teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of production experience using Python, Go, or a similar high-scale backend language.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, data modeling, and relational database performance optimization.
- Experience contributing to systems at significant technical and organizational scale.
- Strong CS and algorithms fundamentals, complex project delivery experience, and strong stakeholder communication skills.
Pay
USD 159,000–278,250 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, macOS, Windows, iOS, Slack, Microsoft 365
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