Rippling
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform
$159K–$278K
San Francisco, CA +2 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Nov 13, 2025
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 5+ years.
About the job
Build and operate foundational backend services and APIs that support Rippling’s products and engineering teams at scale.
What you'll do
- Design and implement core backend services and APIs for critical product capabilities and complex business logic.
- Make infrastructure and data-integrity decisions to support scale, reliability, and security.
- Partner across teams, lead technical reviews, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of production experience with Python, Go, or a similar high-scale backend language.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, 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 exceptional communication skills.
Pay
USD 159,000–278,250 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go
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