Senior Staff Software Engineer- Monetization Platform

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

• Ripplings 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 Ripplings 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 youll 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 ownership.
• Define clear service boundaries APIs data models ownership models and failure-handling strategies across interconnected monetization systems.
• Make high-quality technical tradeoffs across correctness scalability performance cost compliance maintainability and delivery speed.
• Stay hands-on through design reviews code reviews debugging prototyping production investigations and implementation-level decisions.
• Partner closely with Product Revenue Operations Finance Accounting Payments Platform Security Data and product engineering teams.
• Identify systemic technical risks early and drive alignment on durable solutions particularly where customer trust or financial accuracy is at stake.
• Establish engineering standards for critical monetization systems including testing observability incident learning migration safety rollout mechanisms and operational readiness.
• Mentor Staff Senior and mid-level engineers and help grow technical leadership across the organization.
• Raise the engineering bar through strong technical judgment thoughtful design reviews clear technical writing and operational excellence.

What success looks like

• Platform leverage: Product teams can launch new products pricing structures packaging models entitlement models and usage-based offerings without rebuilding core monetization infrastructure.
• Correctness and trust: Critical contract entitlement subscription billing payment tax and revenue workflows maintain a high standard of data integrity auditability and reliability.
• Clear architectural boundaries: Monetization capabilities have well-defined ownership APIs data contracts and service boundaries reducing coupling and one-off implementations.
• Faster product and market expansion: New products and country launches can adopt common monetization capabilities rather than creating bespoke billing and entitlement systems.
• Operational excellence: Critical monetization systems have strong observability safe migration patterns effective incident learning and clear operational ownership.
• Technical leadership: Engineers across teams look to you for architectural guidance difficult technical decisions and direction on complex cross-system problems.
• Stronger technical leaders: Staff Senior and mid-level engineers around you develop greater technical judgment ownership and ability to lead increasingly complex initiatives.

What were looking for

• 15 years of software engineering experience preferably across backend engineering platform engineering infrastructure distributed systems product engineering or systems engineering.
• Proven experience operating at Senior Staff Principal Engineer or equivalent Staff scope.
• Deep hands-on engineering foundation with strong coding debugging system design and production ownership experience.
• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems with demanding reliability observability and data correctness requirements.
• Strong architecture depth across APIs databases data modeling concurrency event-driven systems service boundaries reliability performance failure modes and long-term maintainability.
• Demonstrated ability to own ambiguous cross-functional multi-team technical initiatives from definition through production ownership.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to make tradeoffs across product needs business constraints engineering quality and long-term platform direction.
• Ability to influence senior engineers product leaders and cross-functional stakeholders without relying on formal authority.
• Strong mentorship record and a track record of raising the technical bar for engineers around you.
• Clear written and verbal communication especially when explaining complex technical decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfort operating in fast-paced high-ambiguity environments.
• Deep backend programming experience in one or more languages. Python and Django experience is a strong plus.

Bonus points

• Experience building monetization entitlement metered or usage-based billing subscription pricing payments accounting revenue tax or fintech systems.
• Experience building internal platforms used by multiple product engineering teams.
• Experience working in SaaS enterprise software HR technology payroll compliance workflow-heavy domains or high-growth product companies.
• Experience with MongoDB or similar NoSQL databases.
• Experience with reliability engineering incident response performance tuning observability and operational excellence.
• Experience with security permissions auditability compliance or enterprise-grade controls.
• A builder-leader mindset: someone who can define direction align stakeholders establish durable architecture and remain close to execution.

Required Experience:

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