Senior Software Engineer - Data Catalog

About Rippling

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 $1.4B+ 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.

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What you will need

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record of technical leadership and org-wide impact
• Deep backend and distributed systems expertise, including experience designing services with clear ownership, strong reliability, and well-defined interfaces
• High agency and bias toward shipping, with the ability to turn ambiguous product ideas into narrow launches, fast feedback loops, and durable technical foundations
• AI-native engineering mindset, with hands-on experience using AI tools to move faster and the judgment to know when correctness, security, and architecture need deeper human ownership
• Strong security and systems judgment, especially around authorization, identity, data movement, audit logs, or policy enforcement
• Product sense for enterprise software, including a bias toward customer-visible impact and operational simplicity
• Ability to communicate clearly with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders, especially when navigating trade-offs across security, usability, and speed
• Familiarity with AI infrastructure, LLM gateways, MCP, developer tools, identity systems, or data protection is a strong plus, but not required

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 [email protected]

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.