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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 Staff Software Engineer
Verify your degree field matches the role
Staff Software Engineer roles require a specialty occupation showing your degree directly relates to the position. A computer science, software engineering, or closely related technical degree satisfies this. A general business or unrelated STEM degree creates LCA complications your employer must address.
Target employers already filing LCAs
Search the OFLC Wage Search to identify companies that have certified LCAs for software engineering roles at the Staff level. These employers already understand the H-1B1 Chile process and won't need to be educated on consular filing requirements.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified sponsoring employers
Search Migrate Mate to filter Staff Software Engineer openings by employers with confirmed H-1B1 Chile visa filing history. This cuts the research time of manually cross-referencing DOL disclosure data against active job postings.
Confirm your title maps to SOC code 15-1252
Staff Software Engineer roles typically fall under SOC code 15-1252 in the O*NET classification system. Your LCA must reference the correct SOC code, so confirm your employer's job description aligns with this classification before the DOL filing begins.
Negotiate your start date around LCA certification
DOL certifies LCAs within seven business days, but consular appointment availability in Santiago varies. Build at least three to four weeks between your offer acceptance and your target start date so your employer isn't filing under pressure.
Prepare a nonimmigrant intent response before your interview
Unlike H-1B visa, the H-1B1 Chile visa doesn't allow dual intent. Consular officers will probe your plans after the visa period ends. Have a clear, honest answer about ties to Chile and your intended timeline before your Santiago appointment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Staff Software Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B1 Chile?
Yes. Staff Software Engineer is a specialty occupation under the H-1B1 Chile visa because the role normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a directly related field. Your employer confirms this in the Labor Condition Application filed with DOL. Roles where any degree is accepted regardless of field would not qualify.
How does H-1B1 Chile compare to H-1B for Staff Software Engineer positions?
H-1B1 Chile skips the lottery entirely, has no USCIS petition requirement, and is processed directly at the consulate in Santiago. H-1B requires USCIS approval before you can enter the U.S. and is subject to an annual lottery. For a Staff Software Engineer with a confirmed offer, H-1B1 Chile is typically faster and more predictable, though it doesn't allow dual intent the way H-1B does.
Where can I find Staff Software Engineer jobs that offer H-1B1 Chile visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search Staff Software Engineer openings filtered by employers with documented H-1B1 Chile visa filing history, so you're not guessing which companies will sponsor. The platform surfaces DOL Labor Condition Application data so you can see which employers have filed for this role type before applying.
Can my H-1B1 Chile status cover a promotion from Software Engineer to Staff Software Engineer?
A material change in job duties or title requires your employer to file a new LCA with DOL before the promotion takes effect. If the Staff-level role involves substantially different responsibilities or a different SOC code, treat it as a new H-1B1 Chile filing, not just an internal HR update. Check with your employer's immigration contact before the change is finalized.
How long can I stay in the U.S. on H-1B1 Chile as a Staff Software Engineer?
Each H-1B1 Chile admission is valid for up to one year and can be renewed in one-year increments indefinitely, as long as you maintain a qualifying job offer and your employer recertifies the LCA with DOL. There's no maximum cap on renewals, but each extension requires an updated Labor Condition Application showing the prevailing wage for your role and location.