Rippling's competitive advantage is the power of the platform. As our product suite grows, the fact that you can create a report, workflow, and permission data the same way becomes more and more valuable. The mission of Rippling’s object graph team is to build an intuitive, powerful, and accessible system catalog that will power Rippling’s platform by centralizing the schema that customers have access to in Rippling. Think Describe Table for all of the data in Rippling.
Requirements
- Experience building large-scale, data-intensive distributed systems, such as high-volume SaaS environments
- Preferred experience in building out large scale product infrastructures/platforms
- Preferred experience designing and developing developer tooling
- Preferred experience in our technology stack- Python, Django, Golang, MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, AWS
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and implement object graph features, focusing on scalability, performance, and reliability. This includes building optimal interfaces, data pipelines, developer experiences, and performant systems.
- Enhance Developer Experience: Work with customers internally to ensure the object graph is intuitive, responsive, and great to use, empowering users to effectively onboard and fetch the data they need.
- Support and collaborate with a wide range of engineering and operational teams.
- Act as a central partner, ensuring the object graph integrates seamlessly across various data sources and systems, making it a foundational tool that powers platform work across the organization.
- Drive rapid, iterative development cycles, delivering impactful features and enhancements to the object graph that respond to user needs and evolving system requirements.
Other
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Ability to thrive in an environment with multiple stakeholders and developing independent product opinions on systems
- Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in written and verbal modes
- 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.
