Senior Staff Software Engineer, Query and Data Platform
Company: Rippling
Location: Seattle, WA 98102
Salary: $207,000 - $362,250 a year
Posted: 2026-02-03
About this role
## 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. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.
Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.
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## About the role
Rippling’s Data Cloud underpins every analytical experience across our platform—from real-time dashboards for HR and IT admins to the next generation of AI-driven workflows. At the heart of this ecosystem is RQL (Rippling Query Language), our proprietary language that allows customers and internal developers to build complex formulas, analytics, and applications.
As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Query and Data Platform team, you will be a "dual-ended" technical leader. You will have the technical depth to drop into the code to unblock high-priority tactical initiatives, while simultaneously surfacing to architect the multiyear roadmap for our data infrastructure. You aren’t just building a feature; you are evolving a startup-stage infrastructure into a world-class, mature data platform that rivals the industry’s leading cloud providers.
## What you will do
- **Architect the Future of RQL:** Own the grammar, parser, and compiler layer of RQL. You will expand its expressive power to ensure that Rippling’s AI...