Software Engineer I Data Infrastructure

About The Role

The Data Infrastructure Team is a lean high-impact group operating in a true founder mode. We are responsible for building and safeguarding all data systems managing the lifecycle of 500 production-grade resources across 10 types of data stores. Our core mission is to build self-serve automated platforms that ensure our systems are efficient scalable and continuously evolving. We dont just operate systemswe invent them.

What You Will Do

We are looking for enthusiastic innovative engineers to join our engineering team as Software Engineers (SDE-1). In this role youll collaborate with experienced engineers contribute to real-world projects from day one and gain exposure to cutting-edge tools and technologies. Youll play a key role in building and optimizing products that reach millions of users globally. you will join one of our many teams to develop robust well-designed products implement new updates and features and solve complex problems that affect our business and our clients.

• Invent design and build self-serve automated platforms for managing the lifecycle of 500 production-grade data resources across 10 data store types.
• Drive innovation by engineering foundational tooling for all engineering teams such as the Database Proxy and the database replication services.
• Pioneer and execute complex projects like large-scale zero-downtime database migrations.
• Go deep into technical architecture distributed systems protocol-level debugging and performance optimization to ensure systems are reliable scalable and efficient at petabyte scale.
• Build and maintain the core foundations for strategic initiatives including multi-region architecture sandbox environments and a comprehensive Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code platform.
• Focus intensely on performance observability cost and operability to maintain infrastructure that just works even when handling 100 billion queries/day and 10 PB of data transfer.
• Write core libraries like middlewares ORMs proxies rate limiters shard routers (in Python and Go) to support scalability and developer experience.
• Take end-to-end ownership of projects from initial design and planning to successful rollout and operation.

What You Will Have

• 1-2 years experience working with fast growing top tier product companies
• Strong coding in one or more programming languages such as Java Python C or Go.
• Expert understanding of data structures algorithms software design principles and low level design
• Ability to communicate clearly and work effectively in a collaborative environment
• Understanding of system design and complex distributed systems
• Eagerness to learn new technologies and apply them to solve real-world problems.
• Bonus points for open source contributions competitive coding experience and a strong Computer Science background from a Tier 1 institution.

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 employees role.