Rippling
Staff Software Engineer - Payroll Data
$180K–$315K
Seattle, WA +2 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jan 6, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
San Francisco, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Designs and leads scalable payroll data infrastructure, pipelines, and query systems used by reporting, tax, accounting, billing, and AI products.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain data infrastructure and ETL/streaming pipelines, ensuring correctness, schema evolution, and lifecycle management.
- Design a unified query layer spanning batch and real-time processing, and address interoperability with core systems.
- Lead technical design, reliability and observability practices, mentorship, and cross-functional platform planning.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated impact on complex backend or data-intensive systems.
- Strong data infrastructure experience, including pipelines, ETL/ELT systems, or large-scale data platforms.
- Expertise in distributed systems and proficiency in a modern backend language (e.g., Go, Java, Python).
- Experience with transactional and analytical data stores, plus production system observability, reliability, and debuggability.
Pay
USD 180,000–315,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Go, Java, Python
AI focus
Build data infrastructure and pipelines supporting AI use cases and address interoperability with AI systems.
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