# Staff Software Engineer - Core Experience at Rippling

- Company: Rippling
- What the company does: About Rippling Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://rippling.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $189K to $315K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/rippling/jobs/81ee1b27-147d-416d-bbe7-3d581aece2a6?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rippling-staff-software-engineer-core-experience/

## About the role

The Core Experience team owns how companies and users first encounter Rippling, and how they operate within it every day. We build the onboarding flows that take companies from zero to running on Rippling, the self-serve growth infrastructure that lets customers discover and purchase products without a sales touch, and the foundational surfaces (home dashboard, navigation, user management, and company settings) that every Rippling user touches regardless of which product they're in. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of professional software engineering, with a strong track record in backend systems
- Systems thinking: You design for scale, fault tolerance, and correctness from the start. You understand the trade-offs between consistency and availability, and you know when simple is the right answer and when it isn't
- Full-stack range: You're backend-leaning but comfortable owning a feature end-to-end
- High agency: You identify the problem before you're asked, scope a solution, and execute. You don't need a well-defined ticket to make progress
- Platform instinct: You think about your work as infrastructure others will build on, and you write code and design APIs accordingly
- Tech stack: Deep proficiency in a modern backend language (Python, Go, Java, etc.) and strong data modeling skills across SQL and NoSQL

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rippling-staff-software-engineer-core-experience/