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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.
We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.
About the Role
Most companies build applications.
Platform Engineering at Rippling builds the systems that make entire categories of applications possible.
We're hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to help define the future of Rippling's core platform and AI infrastructure. This is a rare opportunity to work on foundational systems that sit at the center of the company and influence nearly every product, engineering team, and customer experience.
Rippling's platform is unlike a traditional infrastructure stack. At its core is a dynamically stitched, permissions-aware business ontology that connects data, workflows, identities, permissions, and business processes across HR, IT, Finance, and Operations. Built on top of that foundation are the systems that power our Object Platform, event-driven dependency graph, workflow engine, search capabilities, developer ecosystem, and Rippling Query Language (RQL).
As AI becomes deeply embedded across the product suite, these platform systems become even more critical. Every AI experience at Rippling must operate against live business data, respect complex permission boundaries, understand organizational context, and execute actions safely and reliably. The infrastructure enabling those capabilities is being built today.
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you'll help define the architecture that powers both Rippling's platform and its next generation of AI-native products. You'll solve distributed systems challenges at significant scale, drive company-wide technical strategy, and influence how hundreds of engineers build software across the organization.
This is a deeply technical leadership role for someone who wants to work on foundational systems, tackle difficult architectural problems, and leave a lasting imprint on a rapidly growing engineering organization.
What You Will Do
- Serve as a senior technical leader within Rippling's engineering organization
- Define and drive the long-term architecture of core platform systems that power dozens of products and hundreds of engineers
- Design highly scalable, reliable, and extensible distributed systems that serve as foundational building blocks across the company
- Lead large, cross-organizational initiatives that span multiple teams, products, and technical domains
- Translate ambiguous business and product requirements into elegant, durable technical solutions
- Drive architectural decisions that impact the future evolution of Rippling's Business Operating System
- Partner closely with senior engineering leaders to shape platform strategy and technical direction
- Build the infrastructure that enables AI systems to securely interact with live business data, workflows, permissions, and operational systems
- Develop core platform primitives that accelerate product development across the company
- Raise the engineering bar through mentorship, design reviews, technical leadership, and operational excellence
- Act as the directly responsible individual (DRI) for some of the company's most critical technical initiatives
- Help define how platform infrastructure evolves to support increasingly intelligent and autonomous software systems
What You Will Need
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience operating at the Staff or Senior Staff level
- Deep expertise designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Strong experience developing platform infrastructure, shared services, or foundational engineering systems
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across large engineering organizations
- Strong architectural judgment and a track record of designing systems that scale with both business growth and organizational complexity
- Experience building highly reliable backend systems in languages such as Python, Go, Java, or similar
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including distributed systems, concurrency, data modeling, networking, and systems design
- Experience operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments where ambiguity is high and execution speed matters
- Exceptional communication and influence skills, with the ability to align engineers, engineering leaders, and executive stakeholders
- A product mindset and passion for building platforms that unlock leverage for both developers and customers
- Excitement about the role AI will play in transforming enterprise software and the infrastructure required to support it
Why This Role Is Unique
Very few companies are attempting to build what Rippling is building.
You'll work on the foundational systems that power an integrated Business Operating System spanning HR, IT, Finance, Identity, and Operations. You'll help architect the platform that enables hundreds of engineers to build products faster, while simultaneously defining the infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI experiences across the company.
The systems you design won't support a single product or team. They'll become part of the foundation that every product at Rippling is built upon.
If you're excited by hard distributed systems problems, platform architecture at scale, and helping define how AI interacts with real-world business systems, we'd love to talk.
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 accommodations@rippling.com
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.
The pay range for this role is:
- 201,000 - 335,000 CAD per year (CA)
- 207,000 - 345,000 USD per year (US)
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.
We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.
About the Role
Most companies build applications.
Platform Engineering at Rippling builds the systems that make entire categories of applications possible.
We're hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to help define the future of Rippling's core platform and AI infrastructure. This is a rare opportunity to work on foundational systems that sit at the center of the company and influence nearly every product, engineering team, and customer experience.
Rippling's platform is unlike a traditional infrastructure stack. At its core is a dynamically stitched, permissions-aware business ontology that connects data, workflows, identities, permissions, and business processes across HR, IT, Finance, and Operations. Built on top of that foundation are the systems that power our Object Platform, event-driven dependency graph, workflow engine, search capabilities, developer ecosystem, and Rippling Query Language (RQL).
As AI becomes deeply embedded across the product suite, these platform systems become even more critical. Every AI experience at Rippling must operate against live business data, respect complex permission boundaries, understand organizational context, and execute actions safely and reliably. The infrastructure enabling those capabilities is being built today.
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you'll help define the architecture that powers both Rippling's platform and its next generation of AI-native products. You'll solve distributed systems challenges at significant scale, drive company-wide technical strategy, and influence how hundreds of engineers build software across the organization.
This is a deeply technical leadership role for someone who wants to work on foundational systems, tackle difficult architectural problems, and leave a lasting imprint on a rapidly growing engineering organization.
What You Will Do
- Serve as a senior technical leader within Rippling's engineering organization
- Define and drive the long-term architecture of core platform systems that power dozens of products and hundreds of engineers
- Design highly scalable, reliable, and extensible distributed systems that serve as foundational building blocks across the company
- Lead large, cross-organizational initiatives that span multiple teams, products, and technical domains
- Translate ambiguous business and product requirements into elegant, durable technical solutions
- Drive architectural decisions that impact the future evolution of Rippling's Business Operating System
- Partner closely with senior engineering leaders to shape platform strategy and technical direction
- Build the infrastructure that enables AI systems to securely interact with live business data, workflows, permissions, and operational systems
- Develop core platform primitives that accelerate product development across the company
- Raise the engineering bar through mentorship, design reviews, technical leadership, and operational excellence
- Act as the directly responsible individual (DRI) for some of the company's most critical technical initiatives
- Help define how platform infrastructure evolves to support increasingly intelligent and autonomous software systems
What You Will Need
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience operating at the Staff or Senior Staff level
- Deep expertise designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Strong experience developing platform infrastructure, shared services, or foundational engineering systems
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across large engineering organizations
- Strong architectural judgment and a track record of designing systems that scale with both business growth and organizational complexity
- Experience building highly reliable backend systems in languages such as Python, Go, Java, or similar
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including distributed systems, concurrency, data modeling, networking, and systems design
- Experience operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments where ambiguity is high and execution speed matters
- Exceptional communication and influence skills, with the ability to align engineers, engineering leaders, and executive stakeholders
- A product mindset and passion for building platforms that unlock leverage for both developers and customers
- Excitement about the role AI will play in transforming enterprise software and the infrastructure required to support it
Why This Role Is Unique
Very few companies are attempting to build what Rippling is building.
You'll work on the foundational systems that power an integrated Business Operating System spanning HR, IT, Finance, Identity, and Operations. You'll help architect the platform that enables hundreds of engineers to build products faster, while simultaneously defining the infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI experiences across the company.
The systems you design won't support a single product or team. They'll become part of the foundation that every product at Rippling is built upon.
If you're excited by hard distributed systems problems, platform architecture at scale, and helping define how AI interacts with real-world business systems, we'd love to talk.
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 accommodations@rippling.com
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.
The pay range for this role is:
- 201,000 - 335,000 CAD per year (CA)
- 207,000 - 345,000 USD per year (US)
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Senior Staff Engineer
Verify your degree aligns with the role
Senior Staff Engineer positions require a directly related degree field, not just any engineering background. A degree in civil engineering won't support a software infrastructure role. Cross-check your specific degree discipline against the job's technical requirements before applying.
Search for employers using Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Senior Staff Engineer roles by employers with active H-1B1 Chile visa filing history. DOL Labor Condition Application data shows which companies have sponsored this visa category for engineering roles, so you're targeting verified sponsors, not guessing.
Confirm the prevailing wage before negotiating
Your employer must certify your salary meets the DOL prevailing wage for Senior Staff Engineer in their specific location. Run the OFLC Wage Search for SOC code 15-1252 before your offer conversation so you know the floor and can negotiate from an informed position.
Ask employers about their LCA timeline upfront
Unlike H-1B visa, H-1B1 Chile requires a fresh LCA for every two-year renewal. Ask hiring managers whether their legal team files LCAs in-house or through outside counsel, since slow LCA processing can create gaps if you're already working in the U.S. on a prior status.
Prepare a specialty occupation evidence packet
Consular officers assess whether Senior Staff Engineer duties require a specific degree field. Bring your job offer letter, an O*NET occupation profile printout for your SOC code, and your academic transcripts to demonstrate the direct connection between your credentials and the role's technical requirements.
Use the H-1B1 Chile cap to time your consulate visit
The H-1B1 Chile annual cap of 1,400 visas resets each October 1. Because usage rarely approaches the cap, you can schedule your Santiago consulate appointment at any point in the fiscal year without worrying about cutoff dates the way H-1B applicants must.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior Staff Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation under the H-1B1 Chile visa?
Yes. Senior Staff Engineer positions typically require at least a bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a directly related technical field, which satisfies the H-1B1 Chile specialty occupation standard. The key is that your specific degree discipline must align with the role's duties. A generalist business degree wouldn't qualify, but an electrical, software, or systems engineering degree will in most cases.
How does the H-1B1 Chile visa differ from the H-1B for Senior Staff Engineers?
The H-1B1 Chile visa has no lottery, a dedicated annual cap of 1,400 visas that has never filled, and is processed at the U.S. consulate in Santiago rather than through USCIS. H-1B requires employer petition filing with USCIS and subjects you to a random lottery with roughly 25% selection odds. For Chilean professionals, H-1B1 Chile is a direct consular path that bypasses the lottery entirely.
How do I find Senior Staff Engineer employers who sponsor the H-1B1 Chile visa?
Migrate Mate filters Senior Staff Engineer roles by employers with documented H-1B1 Chile visa filing history using DOL Labor Condition Application data. This lets you target companies that have already sponsored Chilean nationals in engineering roles, rather than approaching employers who may be unfamiliar with the H-1B1 Chile process and unwilling to navigate it.
Does the H-1B1 Chile visa allow dual intent for Senior Staff Engineers pursuing a green card?
No. The H-1B1 Chile visa does not permit dual intent, meaning you must maintain a nonimmigrant intent and a residence abroad when applying and renewing. Senior Staff Engineers on H-1B1 Chile who want to pursue permanent residency typically need to transition to an H-1B or employment-based immigrant visa category before filing a green card petition.
What happens if my H-1B1 Chile visa expires before my employer files a renewal LCA?
H-1B1 Chile does not carry the same automatic cap-gap protection as H-1B. If your two-year period expires and the new LCA isn't certified in time, you'll need to either stop working or depart the U.S. and re-enter after the consulate issues a renewed visa. Senior Staff Engineers should track renewal timelines carefully and confirm their employer starts the LCA process at least 60 days before expiration. Migrate Mate can help you identify employers with established renewal workflows.