Senior Platform Engineer, XRPL Infrastructure & Automation

Hidden Road; United States; On-site; USD 172,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Professional development budget

Flexible in-office days

Job summary

Ripple is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the RippleX Platform Engineering team, focusing on reliability, scalability, and security of XRPL infrastructure. You’ll influence platform components, automation, and internal tooling to empower developers and reduce downtime.

You’ll mentor engineers while advancing IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and observability across distributed systems in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a 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.
• Familiarity with distributed systems monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent tools.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills—able to align technical execution across teams while mentoring and developing talent.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on driving outcomes in complex and evolving environments.

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 language

Python

Java

Leadership

Collaboration

Problem solving

Communication

Linux systems

Networking

Concurrency

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Istio

Helm

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

CI/CD tooling

Observability tools

Job description

Ripple is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the RippleX Platform Engineering team, focusing on reliability, scalability, and security of XRPL infrastructure. You’ll influence platform components, automation, and internal tooling to empower developers and reduce downtime.

You’ll mentor engineers while advancing IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and observability across distributed systems in a fast-paced, evolving environment.