Senior Staff Software Engineer - HRIS

Rippling offers a collaborative, in-office engineering culture in New York City with strong growth opportunities, competitive compensation, equity, and a comprehensive benefits program. This Senior Staff Software Engineer role spans the entire HRIS organization, shaping platform primitives and end-to-end product workflows used by millions while guiding technical strategy across multiple teams. This onsite position is based in New York, NY.

Responsibilities

• Define and steer the HRIS engineering roadmap, setting long term direction for architecture, scalability, reliability, and usability across platform and product surfaces.
• Design and deliver core data models, APIs, services, and abstractions that underpin HRIS and are broadly adopted by product teams.
• Lead end to end engineering of key HRIS product flows such as hiring, onboarding, benefits, time, and compliance, ensuring robustness and performance.
• Head cross-organizational initiatives including global scale, regulatory compliance, and high availability that span multiple teams.
• Raise the engineering bar by guiding design and execution, mentoring senior engineers, and promoting best practices in system and product engineering.
• Collaborate closely with engineering leadership across HRIS and adjacent domains to align technical vision and deliver cohesive solutions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including technical leadership roles with impact across the organization.
• Proven track record spanning both platform and product engineering, designing distributed systems and building complex, user facing applications at scale.
• Deep expertise in system architecture, data modeling, and service design, balancing long term vision with iterative delivery.
• Experience thriving in high growth, fast paced environments where platform primitives and product requirements evolve rapidly.
• Strong technical leadership and mentorship skills with demonstrated influence across multiple teams and organizations.

Additional information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics. Rippling provides reasonable accommodations as needed.

Rippling values in-office collaboration and culture. For office-based employees within a defined radius of a Rippling office, working in the office at least three days a week is considered an essential function of the role.

This role offers a competitive salary plus benefits plus equity. The US salary range for this position is 207,000 to 345,000 USD per year, with final offers aligned to location and other factors.