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About the Role
Rippling is developing foundational AI infrastructure to power intelligent, automated experiences across its platform. The Agents, Automations & Plugins team focuses on creating, invoking, installing, and orchestrating AI agents for both internal product teams and external customers. This is a greenfield opportunity to build the core platform layer for all AI-powered features at Rippling.
Responsibilities
- Own major AI agent infrastructure initiatives across backend, platform, and AI-enabled systems.
- Lead design and execution for systems supporting agent creation, invocation, triggering, skill packaging, plugin connectivity, and automation orchestration.
- Build foundational tools and primitives enabling internal and external users to create and deploy AI agents.
- Act as a technical lead for cross-functional work involving Product, AI Infra, Platform, and Engineering teams.
- Break down ambiguous technical problems into clear architecture and execution plans, shaping the roadmap.
- Write code, review critical code paths, debug production issues, and make implementation-level decisions.
- Build reusable platform systems for multiple Rippling product teams.
- Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and technical guidance.
- Balance speed, quality, reliability, and long-term platform maintainability.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of technical leadership and org-wide impact.
- Deep expertise in platform and distributed systems engineering, with experience building reliable, observable, large-scale systems.
- Strong hands-on coding skills, with active contribution to the codebase alongside leadership responsibilities.
- Experience leading complex, cross-functional technical initiatives and driving alignment across multiple teams.
- Strong product instincts, translating ambiguous problems into durable platform capabilities.
- Clear, precise communication to diverse audiences, both written and verbal.
- Comfort with ambiguity and high velocity, adapting to an evolving roadmap.
- Strong curiosity around AI agents, LLM infrastructure, agentic workflows, automation systems, or plugin/tool-use architectures.
- Recent hands-on experience building AI agents is a plus.
Skills
- AI agents
- LLM infrastructure
- Agentic workflows
- Automation systems
- Plugin/tool-use architectures
- Platform engineering
- Distributed systems engineering
- Backend development
- System design
- Technical leadership
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Product sense
- Communication
Location
- US-based
Work Type
- In-office (at least three days a week)
Experience Level
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Technical leadership
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary + benefits + equity
Benefits
- Benefits
- Equity
About the Company
- Rippling is building the foundational AI infrastructure that powers intelligent, automated experiences across the entire platform.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.