Senior Staff DevOps Engineer — Global Platform, Equity

Devopsroles; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Equity

Professional development budget

Mobile phone stipend

Job summary

Ripple is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer, DevOps to advance multi-region platforms, production infrastructure, and CI/CD automation. You will push boundaries with new tools and use a data-driven approach, collaborating with diverse engineering teams.

In this role you will build deployment pipelines, automate lifecycle services, and align with DevOps‑first principles, emphasizing security, scalability, and knowledge sharing in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps or related roles.
• Strong experience in either Python, Go, or Java.
• Experience managing extensive, multi-region service platforms.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes and background in managing cloud infrastructure, especially AWS.
• Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker, Rkt, 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.).
• Security awareness, with an emphasis on crafting for security standard methodologies.
• Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software build, scalability, and security.
• A positive demeanor and a passion for sharing knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and maintain Ripple’s multi-region, multi-provider service platforms.
• Supply build and development of tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency.
• Lead discovery of next-generation solutions and work with wider engineering teams on implementation, adoption, and continuous improvements.
• 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 adoption of DevOps‑first principles within the organization.

Skills

DevOps experience

Programming languages

Kubernetes

AWS cloud

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Security best practices

Agile development

Knowledge sharing

Job description

Ripple is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer, DevOps to advance multi-region platforms, production infrastructure, and CI/CD automation. You will push boundaries with new tools and use a data-driven approach, collaborating with diverse engineering teams.

In this role you will build deployment pipelines, automate lifecycle services, and align with DevOps‑first principles, emphasizing security, scalability, and knowledge sharing in a fast-paced environment.