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Bengaluru · On-site · 1-4 Yrs · Oct 5
1 open role0 posted in 7d1 in 30d
Hiring: Engineering
Job description
Overview
Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance.
Responsibilities
- Invent, design, and build self-serve, automated platforms for managing the lifecycle of 500+ production-grade data resources across 10+ data store types.
- Drive innovation by engineering foundational tooling for all engineering teams, such as the Database Proxy and the database replication services.
- Pioneer and execute complex projects like large-scale, zero-downtime database migrations.
- Go deep into technical architecture, distributed systems, protocol-level debugging, and performance optimization to ensure systems are reliable, scalable, and efficient at petabyte scale.
- Build and maintain the core foundations for strategic initiatives, including multi-region architecture, sandbox environments, and a comprehensive, Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code platform.
- Focus intensely on performance, observability, cost and operability to maintain infrastructure that just works, even when handling ~100 billion queries/day and 10 PB of data transfer.
- Write core libraries like middlewares, ORMs, proxies, rate limiters, shard routers (in Python and Go) to support scalability and developer experience.
- Take end-to-end ownership of projects, from initial design and planning to successful rollout and operation.
- 1-2 years experience working with fast growing, top tier product companies
- Strong coding in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, or Go.
- Expert understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design principles and low level design
- Ability to communicate clearly and work effectively in a collaborative environment
- Understanding of system design and complex distributed systems
- Eagerness to learn new technologies and apply them to solve real-world problems.
Nice to have
- Additional Information
- Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.
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Last updated 6 October 2026
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