Job Description

About Rippling

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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.



Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.85B+ from the world's top investors--including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock--and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.



We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.

About the Team: - Rippling PEO (Professional Employer Organization) and HR Services Overview

Rippling's

PEO (Professional Employer Organization)

and

HR Services

products help founders and small businesses build faster -- and succeed with lower failure rates. Together, they drive over

$150M in annual revenue

, forming a core pillar of Rippling's business. In the early years, these systems were built at breakneck speed to enable go-to-market growth -- fueling massive adoption but introducing tech debt and tightly coupled designs. Now in

Phase L2

, the team is rebuilding the foundation into an

extensible, use-case-driven architecture

-- transforming complex, hard-coded systems into scalable, modular platforms. You'll play a key role in re-imagining the backbone of Rippling's HR ecosystem -- improving developer velocity, reducing operational friction, and unlocking new market opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

System Reliability:

Enterprise-grade stability across global employment, benefits, and compliance workflows, with zero critical failures in employee lifecycle operations.

Extensibility:

New employment models, jurisdictions, and compliance frameworks added with minimal engineering effort and zero downtime.

Performance:

Significant reduction in workflow latency, data synchronization time, and operational overhead across distributed systems.

Developer Velocity:

Modular, well-abstracted APIs and frameworks that empower internal teams to build on top of PEO systems without friction.

Business Impact:

Faster onboarding for new countries and partners, reduced manual interventions, and measurable improvements in customer satisfaction and retention.

Required Qualifications

7-10 years

of experience building large-scale, distributed systems in

high-compliance or high-integrity domains

(HR, Payroll, FinTech, or Insurance). Deep expertise in

domain-driven design

,

data modeling

, and

compliance-first architecture

. Experience

scaling complex regulatory or multi-tenant systems

, ideally spanning employment, benefits, or HR platforms. Proficiency in designing

extensible, modular service boundaries

that maintain

auditability and backward compatibility

. Strong understanding of

policy enforcement, rule engines, and event-driven systems

. Ability to translate

legal and operational complexity

into

elegant, maintainable engineering abstractions

. A

hands-on architectural leader

who can set technical direction, mentor teams, and drive large-scale transformations sustainably.

Bonus Points

Experience with

compliance-as-code

or

policy automation

frameworks. Exposure to

global employment

,

EOR

, or

multi-country workforce

systems. Familiarity with

event sourcing

,

CQRS

, and

streaming architectures

. Contributions to

open-source frameworks

in HR, compliance, or distributed systems domains.

Why Rippling

Backed by

world-class investors (Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Bedrock, GIC, Elad Gil, Goldman Sachs)

Valued among the

fastest-growing SaaS companies

in history Built at the core of Rippling's HR foundation, where

global employment, compliance, and workforce management

come together as one seamless system. Join a team that

pushes the limits of possible

,

builds winning systems, and moves fast with conviction.

Additional Information

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 accomodations@rippling.com


Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.