Rippling
Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure
$189K–$331K
San Francisco, CA · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Mar 24, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Design and scale Rippling’s cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes ecosystem, and distributed systems to support substantial growth while enabling product teams to build and ship effectively.
What you'll do
- Build resilient cloud infrastructure and self-service primitives for increased system load.
- Evolve Kubernetes infrastructure and address global consistency, database contention, and high-throughput processing challenges.
- Drive cross-functional technical consensus and optimize infrastructure resource use and AWS spend.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of architecting and scaling infrastructure.
- Deep experience with distributed systems and hands-on Kubernetes orchestration, including custom controllers, networking, and scaling strategies.
- Product development background and ability to influence technical strategy across engineering teams.
- High proficiency in Python, Go, or Java, with a desire to master Python.
Pay
USD 189,000–330,750 per year (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Go, Java
AI focus
Work on agentic AI workflows.
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