Senior Staff Software Engineer- Monetization 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 $1.85B+ from the world’s top investors, including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, Bedrock, GIC, Elad Gil, and Goldman Sachs, and was named one of America’s best startup employers by Forbes.

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About Monetization Platform

The Monetization Platform team owns the systems behind how Rippling sells, contracts, bills, collects, and recognizes revenue across products and countries.

The team owns the platform behind the complete monetization lifecycle:

Quote Contract Entitlement Subscription Usage Bill Revenue

These systems support a $1B+ sales base, manage entitlements, metering, and usage-based billing rules, and enable localized billing as Rippling launches into new countries.

As Rippling continues to introduce new products, pricing models, packaging structures, and markets, the Monetization Platform provides the common infrastructure that allows teams to move quickly without rebuilding monetization logic each time.

Our vision is simple:

Let any team monetize any product, anywhere, without writing code.

This is a platform for engineers who enjoy solving foundational problems where correctness matters, abstractions need to last, and the impact extends far beyond a single product or team.

The opportunity

• Rippling’s product portfolio is expanding rapidly across HR, IT, Finance, and new product categories.
• Every new product introduces monetization complexity: what a customer purchased, what they are entitled to use, how their subscription evolves, how usage should be measured, what they should be charged, how payments are collected, and how that activity is ultimately reflected in financial systems.
• We are hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for the next generation of Rippling’s Monetization Platform.
• You will own broad, ambiguous, multi-team technical charters spanning contracts, entitlements, subscriptions, usage metering, billing, invoicing, payments, tax, compliance, and revenue workflows.
• You will work on systems where errors are expensive. Incorrect contract state, entitlement state, usage calculations, invoices, payments, taxes, or revenue records can directly affect customers, financial accuracy, and trust.
• This role combines:
• • Hands-on backend and platform engineering
  • Org-level architectural leadership
  • Technical leadership and mentorship
  • Cross-functional influence across Engineering, Product, Finance, Accounting, Revenue Operations, Payments, Security, and Data
• You will define architecture, make difficult technical tradeoffs, align teams around durable solutions, mentor technical leaders, and help build a platform that allows Rippling to monetize new products and markets faster and with greater confidence.
• This is not an architecture-only role. You will stay close to execution through design reviews, code reviews, debugging, prototyping, production investigations, and implementation-level technical decisions.

What you’ll own

• Own major technical charters across CPQ, contracts, entitlements, subscriptions, usage metering, billing, invoicing, payments, tax, compliance, and revenue workflows.
• Define architecture for systems requiring strong guarantees around data integrity, auditability, reliability, recoverability, and clear ownership across service boundaries.
• Design durable platform abstractions that allow product teams to introduce new packaging, pricing, entitlement, metered billing, subscription, and contract models without building custom one-off solutions.
• Lead multi-team initiatives from problem definition and architecture through technical design, execution, migration, launch, and long-term operational …