Staff Software Engineer

Rippling · Bengaluru

  • Experience8–12 yrs
  • SalaryNot disclosed
  • Work modeonsite
  • Levelexecutive
  • Posted2 Sept 2026
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About Rippling

Rippling is hiring in Bengaluru in technology software. This role looks for around 8+ years of experience.

Skills

  • Distributed systems
  • Object-oriented programming
  • Technical strategy
  • System architecture
  • Reliability engineering
  • Software testing
  • Operational excellence
  • Tax infrastructure

The role

A staff software engineer at a payroll technology company architects distributed systems for tax infrastructure, focusing on tax calculation systems and reliability engineering, while shaping technical strategy and engineering standards across teams. The role also applies object-oriented programming and operational excellence to globally scaled, audit-ready platforms.

Full job description

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical strategy, drive architectural decisions, and shape the future of our tax infrastructure. You'll have function-wide impact and set the standard for engineering excellence across teams.

Responsibilities:

System Design: Lead architecture for mission-critical systems handling billions in tax calculations; make decisions that define how the platform scales for 50% YoY growth.

Ownership and Impact: Drive initiatives with function-wide visibility; your work shapes roadmaps and influences company strategy.

Engineering Excellence: Define and champion engineering standards across teams; establish patterns that scale with the organisation.

Reliability and Correctness: Design systems where failure is not an option; build for auditability, correctness, and graceful degradation at scale.

Global Scale: Tackle architectural challenges of processing millions of payroll transactions across multiple countries with 4,000+ jurisdictions and evolving regulations.

Technical Leadership: Be the technical voice in cross-functional decisions and translate business needs into technical strategy.

Requirements:

8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership.

Proven ability to architect large-scale distributed systems with high reliability requirements.

Deep expertise in any OOP language and experience designing systems that other engineers build on.

Track record of driving technical strategy and influencing decisions across multiple teams.

Strong ownership mindset - you see problems through from identification to resolution.

Rigorous engineering practices with a focus on correctness, testing, and operational excellence.

Excellent communication skills; ability to represent engineering to leadership and stakeholders.