Principal Engineer

Description:

About The Role

Rippling is looking for someone to lead architecture initiatives that will support Rippling's continued scalability and performance through a period of hypergrowth. As one of the most senior technical roles in the company, they will work with teams across the organization to explore the company's most challenging technical problems, and develop solutions for them. A successful leader in this role will have exceptional insight into scaling distributed systems, and ability to project influence across the organization, coupled with a hands-on attitude and willingness to drive projects to completion.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the design and implementation of the next generation of Rippling's frameworks, including a service-oriented architecture, a platform for ingesting and processing employee data at scale, and a domain-specific language.
• Ensure Rippling's continued scalability and performance through a period of hypergrowth
• Anticipate technical challenges facing Rippling before they arise, and design and implement solutions to solve them.
• Work with teams facing complex technical challenges of their own. Be a catalyst for developing high-quality software and architecture across the company.
• Represent Rippling technology externally, through conferences, papers, and blog posts.

Qualifications:

• Experience building large-scale distributed systems, such as high-volume SaaS environments, or data processing platforms
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing them
• A track record of influencing and enabling forward-thinking technology decisions across a wide organization
• Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in written and verbal modes