Senior Staff Software Engineer- Monetization Platform

About Monetization Platform The Monetization Platform team owns the systems behind how Rippling sells, contracts, bills, collects, and reco... 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 we're 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 Saa S, enterprise software, HR technology, payroll, compliance, workflow-heavy domains, or high-growth product companies. Experience with Mongo DB or similar No SQL 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.