About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years of software engineering experience to help lead the design and development of large-scale, mission-critical systems.
This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who can operate at high technical depth, influence across teams, and drive complex engineering initiatives from early problem definition through architecture, execution, launch, and long-term operational ownership.
The ideal candidate is not only a robust architect, but also someone who remains close to code, understands implementation trade-offs, mentors other engineers, and raises the engineering bar across the organization.

What You Will Do
Own broad, ambiguous, and high-impact technical charters across multiple teams or systems.
Design and build scalable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems.
Lead architecture and technical strategy for critical platform, backend, infrastructure, or product engineering initiatives.
Break down complex technical problems into clear execution plans.
Partner closely with Product,



Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Data, and business stakeholders.
Make high-quality technical decisions around scale, reliability, performance, latency, availability, observability, and long-term maintainability.
Stay meaningfully hands-on through design reviews, code reviews, debugging, prototyping, and implementation-level decision-making.
Identify technical risks early and drive alignment on durable solutions.
Mentor Staff, Senior, and mid-level engineers and help grow technical leadership within the team.
Establish engineering best practices, reusable patterns, and high standards for design, coding, testing, and operations.
Influence technical direction without relying on formal authority.
Improve system quality through better architecture, operational maturity, incident learnings, and platform-level thinking.
What You Need to Have
15+ years of software engineering experience, preferab

📌 Senior Staff Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Rippling
📍 Bengaluru