About the role
Rippling is building core AI Platform infrastructure that will power intelligent and automated experiences across the company. This includes background agents, automated workflows, evaluation systems, data pipelines, model-quality loops, sandboxing, scaling, latency, reliability, and platform primitives that other product teams can build on.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will operate as a hands-on technical leader. You will own ambiguous platform problems, lead cross-functional initiatives, shape architecture, and continue to write/review/debug production code. This role is not for someone who wants to only advise or delegate.

What you will do
Own major AI Platform initiatives across backend, platform, infrastructure, and AI-enabled systems.
Lead design and execution for systems supporting agents, evals, automation, data pipelines, model quality, sandboxing, scaling, latency, and reliability.
Act as a technical lead for cross-functional work involving Product, Infra, Platform, AI, and Engineering teams.




Break down ambiguous technical problems into clear architecture and execution plans.
Write code, review critical code paths, debug production issues, and make implementation-level decisions.
Build platform systems that can be reused by multiple product teams across Rippling.
Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and technical guidance.
Balance speed, quality, reliability, and long-term platform maintainability.
Qualifications
10–15 years of software engineering experience, preferably in backend, platform, infrastructure, distributed systems, AI platform, or product engineering.
Robust hands-on coding ability; must be willing to remain close to code, debugging, design reviews, and implementation details.
Strong programming knowledge in one or more languages such as Python, Java, Go/Golang, C++, Scala, Kotlin, or C#.
Proven experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
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📌 Staff Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Rippling
📍 Bengaluru