Senior Software Engineer, Platform

P2P; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to enhance its production infrastructure and release pipelines. The role requires substantial experience in cloud infrastructures like AWS or GCP, strong programming skills, and a commitment to operational excellence. Candidates will directly contribute to innovative solutions, automating processes and mentoring team members while enjoying a range of benefits in a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary and bonuses

Wellness reimbursement and programming

Generous vacation policy

Industry-leading parental leave

Catered lunches and stocked kitchens

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Go, Python, or Java.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Proven background with APIs and SDKs.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and maintain multi-region service platforms prioritizing security.
• Develop automation tools and monitoring solutions.
• Collaborate with product engineering on code readiness for production.

Skills

Communication

Customer Service Orientation

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. It’s big, it’s bold, and we’re already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.

If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.

THE WORK:

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a meaningful role helping to advance Ripple's production infrastructure and release pipelines. Senior Platform Engineers at Ripple are a hybrid of systems and software engineers who support the design and lifecycle of our hosted products. You will work closely with product engineers to provide mentorship, automation, and development of platform features!

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Deploy and maintain Ripple’s multi-region, multi-provider service platforms (with an emphasis on security and resiliency)
• Develop tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency
• Build solutions for outstanding technical challenges faced by Ripple involving PKI, secret management, geographic failover, data replication, availability, and platform resiliency
• Build and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, using data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
• Collaborate with product engineering to ensure code is production-ready
• Participate in the leadership of DevOps and GitOps principles within the organization

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical subject area
• 5+ years of meaningful work experience with proven development background with Go, Python, or Java
• Experience developing APIs and SDKs
• Experience working with cloud infrastructures, particularly AWS and GCP
• Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker or OCI running on Kubernetes, Rancher, or Mesos
• Experience building deployment pipelines using common CI/CD tools
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Experience with real-time telemetry and tracing tools like Jaeger and Prometheus
• Strong teammate with a customer service orientation and ability to forge relationships at all levels of the company and across diverse cultures
• Have excellent communication skills – written, verbal and interpersonal

For positions that will be based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is below. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant’s experience and qualifications for the position. This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions.

CA Annual Base Salary Range

$160,000—$180,000 USD

WHO WE ARE:

Do Your Best Work

• The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
• A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact. A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
• Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
• In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
• Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
• We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!

Take Control of Your Finances

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
• Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
• Employee giving match
• Mobile phone stipend

Take Care of Yourself

• R&R days so you can rest and recharge
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
• Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
• Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events

Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.

Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.

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