Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud Infra, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Ripple; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Professional development budget

Wellness reimbursement

Generous vacation

Job summary

Ripple in San Francisco, CA, USA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the RippleX Platform Engineering team. You will design and operate scalable XRPL infrastructure, build automation for CI/CD pipelines, and drive reliability and observability across services.

You’ll lead and mentor engineers, work across teams, and help evolve core systems with automation and incident response. This role emphasizes DevOps, GitOps, and cost-efficient operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field—or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of professional experience, including 2+ years operating cloud-native infrastructure at scale (AWS/GCP preferred).
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or Java, with a deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and concurrency.
• Proven experience with Kubernetes (EKS or similar), container runtimes (Docker/OCI), and service meshes (Istio, Linkerd, etc.).
• Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines and deploying infrastructure using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or similar.
• Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Helm, Ansible) and related automation practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable and resilient infrastructure supporting production-grade XRPL services and public blockchain networks.
• Build automation for infrastructure lifecycle, CI/CD workflows, and deployment pipelines using tools like Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions.
• Develop systems and services that support observability, secret management, disaster recovery, and regional failover.
• Improve platform reliability through proactive instrumentation, alerting, and incident response in collaboration with observability and security teams.
• Contribute to and maintain internal tooling, self-service workflows, and platform capabilities that support developer efficiency and service delivery.
• Evaluate new tools to improve infrastructure scalability and reduce manual overhead.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Helm

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Istio/Linkerd

Job description

Ripple in San Francisco, CA, USA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the RippleX Platform Engineering team. You will design and operate scalable XRPL infrastructure, build automation for CI/CD pipelines, and drive reliability and observability across services.

You’ll lead and mentor engineers, work across teams, and help evolve core systems with automation and incident response. This role emphasizes DevOps, GitOps, and cost-efficient operations.