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Senior Software Engineer, RQL

san francisco, CA

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Engg lists this Senior Software Engineer, RQL opportunity in san francisco, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

About the role The Platform team is responsible for developing core services and cross-cutting products that form the building blocks at Rippling. Other engineering teams at Rippling leverage these fundamental Lego blocks to create complex products on top of them. The team owns the analytics, customizable workflows, data platform, reporting, permissions, and custom fields products. All these projects have customer-facing product components and core platform components supporting 10+ product teams. This is a unique opportunity to work on both product and platform layers at the same time. At Rippling, we want users to configure and customize our features/products without complexity. Therefore, we have created a new language called Rippling Query Language (RQL) which allows our customers to write Queries and scripts to create Formula Fields inside of our analytics suite, applications in Data Cloud and extend functionality elsewhere across Rippling. RQL internally has its own grammar, parser, query translator, distributed query processing engine, and a distributed datastore. You will work on challenging technical challenges like distributed systems and big data technologies.

What you will do

Work on distributed processing engines and distributed databases

Develop high-quality software with attention to detail using tech stacks like Python, MongoDB, CDC, and Kafka

Leverage big data technologies like Aurora, Trino, Presto, Pinot, Iceberg, Flink and more.

Build custom programming languages within the Rippling Platform

Create data platforms, data lakes, and data ingestion systems that work at scale

Design, develop, code, and test software systems, improvements, products, and user-facing experiences

Work alongside software architects and senior developers doing state-of-the-art development work

Contribute to product design and implementation discussions

Find and build unique solutions to implement projects from the idea phase to production

What you will need

5+ years experience in backend engineering roles

Experience writing testable and performant backend code

Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Experience mentoring less-experienced developers

Ability to thrive in an environment that grants you a lot of autonomy to explore creative solutions

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email

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. This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here . A variety of factors are considered when determining someone's compensation- including a candidate's professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

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san francisco, CA, 94199, US

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