Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud, Blockchain & Observability

Academic Key; Genf; Hybrid; CHF 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ripple is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team in Custody. You will shape engineering practices, ensure platform reliability, and drive efficiency across a multi-cloud environment.

You will own and evolve blockchain node infrastructure, build automation, and improve incident response. The role demands deep expertise in scalable infra and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software/platform engineering experience.
• Experience managing blockchain nodes with high availability and failover.
• Strong PostgreSQL production experience.
• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages such as .NET, Go, Bash, or TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable multi-cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP, IBM Cloud).
• Lead infrastructure reliability improvements for custody services.
• Implement and improve monitoring/observability across distributed systems.
• Own blockchain node infrastructure with high availability and provider management.
• Automate provisioning, deployments, testing, failover, and incident response.
• Mentor engineers and document platform engineering decisions.

Skills

Go

TypeScript

.NET

Bash

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Job description

Ripple is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team in Custody. You will shape engineering practices, ensure platform reliability, and drive efficiency across a multi-cloud environment.

You will own and evolve blockchain node infrastructure, build automation, and improve incident response. The role demands deep expertise in scalable infra and collaboration across teams.