Software Engineer 1 - Platform

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 Platform team is building a new Customer Sandbox that lets admins safely try features, validate changes, and reduce production risk. As an SE-1 on this team, you’ll ship core services and tools that make the Sandbox fast, reliable, and easy to use. You’ll own well-defined components end-to-end, contribute to design discussions, and grow through mentorship from senior engineers.

What you will do

• Build and maintain services / APIs that power the Customer Sandbox (creation, data isolation, reset / refresh, access controls).
• Implement change-sync and push-to-prod workflows that speed up safe releases.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code; add diagnostics and dashboards for reliability.
• Participate in design discussions; turn product requirements into clear technical tasks.
• Improve developer ergonomics : scripts, CI checks, test data, and docs.
• Help monitor, triage, and fix issues in lower environments with guidance from the team.
• Collaborate with product, security, and other platform teams to ship features on time.

What you will need

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