Rippling PEO (Professional Employer Organization) and HR Services Overview

Rippling’s PEO (Professional Employer Organization) and HR Services products help founders and small businesses build faster — and succeed with lower failure rates. Together, they drive over $140M in annual revenue, forming a core pillar of Rippling’s business.

In the early years, these systems were built at breakneck speed to enable go-to-market growth — fueling massive adoption but introducing tech debt and tightly coupled designs.

Now in Phase L2, the team is rebuilding the foundation into an extensible, use-case–driven architecture — transforming complex, hard-coded systems into scalable, modular platforms. You’ll play a key role in re-imagining the backbone of Rippling’s HR ecosystem — improving developer velocity, reducing operational friction, and unlocking new market opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• System Reliability: Enterprise-grade stability across global employment, benefits, and compliance workflows, with zero critical failures in employee lifecycle operations.
• Extensibility: New employment models, jurisdictions, and compliance frameworks added with minimal engineering effort and zero downtime.
• Performance: Significant reduction in workflow latency, data synchronization time, and operational overhead across distributed systems.
• Developer Velocity: Modular, well-abstracted APIs and frameworks that empower internal teams to build on top of PEO systems without friction.
• Business Impact: Faster onboarding for new countries and partners, reduced manual interventions, and measurable improvements in customer satisfaction and retention.

Required Qualifications

• 14+ years of experience building large-scale, distributed systems in high-compliance or high-integrity domains (HR, Payroll, FinTech, or Insurance).
• Deep expertise in domain-driven design, data modeling, and compliance-first architecture.
• Experience scaling complex regulatory or multi-tenant systems, ideally spanning employment, benefits, or HR platforms.
• Proficiency in designing extensible, modular service boundaries that maintain auditability and backward compatibility.
• Strong understanding of policy enforcement, rule engines, and event-driven systems.
• Ability to translate legal and operational complexity into elegant, maintainable engineering abstractions.
• A hands-on architectural leader who can set technical direction, mentor teams, and drive large-scale transformations sustainably.

Bonus Points

• Experience with compliance-as-code or policy automation frameworks.
• Exposure to global employment, EOR, or multi-country workforce systems.
• Familiarity with event sourcing, CQRS, and streaming architectures.
• Contributions to open-source frameworks in HR, compliance, or distributed systems domains.

Why Rippling

• Backed by world-class investors (Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Bedrock, GIC, Elad Gil, Goldman Sachs)
• Valued among the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history
• Built at the core of Rippling’s HR foundation, where global employment, compliance, and workforce management come together as one seamless system.
• Join a team that pushes the limits of possible, builds winning systems, and moves fast with conviction.