About the Role:
The Data Catalog team is the semantic intelligence layer of Rippling's platform. Our mission is to make Rippling's data schema — spanning millions of fields across every product — discoverable, trustworthy, and actionable for both humans and AI. We are the authoritative source of truth for "data about data" within Rippling.
We sit at the intersection of platform infrastructure and AI, powering core product surfaces like Workflow Automator, Reports, Supergroups, and Data Manager, while increasingly serving as the data backbone for Rippling's AI products — including the AI Assistant and AI Field Selection features.

What We Build
The team delivers across four strategic pillars:
Data Discoverability: Catalog browse, search, and field-selection experiences used throughout Rippling, enabling users to find the most relevant data for their use case across a vast and growing schema.
Data Enrichment: AI-generated semantic descriptions, glossary tagging, sampled values, usage signals, and RQL formula examples — adding business context that makes raw schema meaningful.




Data Governance: PII classification, sensitive data flagging, compliance tagging, and integration with access controls and auditing infrastructure.
Data Lifecycle: Upstream and downstream dependency tracking, lineage visualization, and event-driven metadata sync to ensure the Catalog stays live and accurate as Rippling's data model evolves.

You will:
Lead the Technical Roadmap: Design, develop, and maintain internet-scale, highly distributed systems and scalable services for the Data Catalog team.
Think for the Future: Prototype with the newest AI tools to think about primitives that will be used to democratize development with Rippling.
Solve for Scale: Tackle our growing size and load and understand where we can be doing less work.
Own the Stack: Work deeply with infrastructure to manage complex distributed systems that power every Rippling product.
Operate as a Tech Lead: This is a "pure engi

📌 Staff Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Rippling
📍 Bengaluru