Staff Software Engineer - Monetization Platform

About Rippling

Rippling is the first way for businesses to manage all of their HR & IT—payroll, benefits, computers, apps, and more—in one unified workforce platform.

By connecting every business system to one source of truth for employee data, businesses can automate all of the manual work they normally need to do to make employee changes. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can just click a button and set up a new employees’ payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps—like Slack, Zoom, and Office 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.35B from the world's top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Bedrock, and Greenoaks—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes (#12 out of 500)

About the Role
The Monetization Platform team at Rippling sits at the heart of every customer interaction — from onboarding and contracts to invoicing and payments — ensuring a seamless experience for clients across the globe. Managing over $700M in SaaS fees annually, the team plays a critical role in compliance, secure transactions, and global expansion, enabling localized billing for new country launches.As a Staff Engineer on this team, you will be the technical leader shaping the future of Rippling’s monetization infrastructure — the platform that enables any product to be sold in any region through any pricing model. You will own the architecture, scalability, and long-term technical vision for the systems powering the Quote Contract Subscription Bill Revenue lifecycle.
Our Vision: “Let any team monetize any product, anywhere, without writing code.”

What You Will Do

• Lead technical architecture for the core Monetization Platform, including CPQ, subscription lifecycle engines, billing and invoicing pipelines, and global tax- and compliance-aware revenue systems.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of high-impact, complex features, from initial design and technical specifications through to production deployment and monitoring.
• Drive the technical roadmap for the Monetization Platform team, identifying and tackling performance bottlenecks, reliability improvements, and architectural refactors.
• Take on ambiguous technical challenges and turn them into concrete, actionable plans for the team.
• Exercise expert technical judgment in building scalable, maintainable, and extensible systems, ensuring data integrity across complex and interdependent services.
• Raise the engineering bar for the entire organization by mentoring senior and junior engineers, leading in-depth design reviews, and championing best practices for code quality, testing, and observability.
• Collaborate across functions with Product Management, Revenue Ops, Platform, Product, Payments, Accounting, and other engineering leaders to deliver cohesive, platform-wide solutions.

What You Will Need

• 8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with a proven track record of technical leadership and driving org-wide impact.
• Expertise in building large-scale, distributed backend systems. Strong proficiency in Python and Django is highly preferred.
• Experience managing the complete project lifecycle, transforming intricate ideas and ambiguous requirements into successful launches independently.
• Deep expertise in system architecture, data modeling, and building core services with clean abstractions.
• A keen product sense and a passion for advocating for the customer, with experience building robust systems that directly impact business-critical flows.
• Outstanding capacity to convey intricate technical concepts clearly and precisely, both in writing and verbally, to diverse functional teams.
• Experience with MongoDB or similar NoSQL databases is a strong plus.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects, while also thriving in a team environment.