Senior Staff DevOps Engineer: Multi-Region Cloud Platform Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Professional development budget

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Catered lunches

Job summary

Ripple is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer, DevOps to join our team and advance infrastructure, release pipelines, and developer tooling across multi‑region platforms. You will shape automation, monitoring, and scalable services while collaborating with diverse engineering groups.

Ideal candidates have 12+ years in DevOps, deep Kubernetes and AWS experience, and strong CI/CD and IaC capabilities. This role emphasizes secure, scalable delivery and cross‑team collaboration in a

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on DevOps or related experience.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• Experience building deployment pipelines with CI/CD tools and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and maintain Ripple’s multi-region, multi-provider service platforms.
• Build and automate platform lifecycle services with data-driven approaches.
• Lead discovery and implementation of next-generation solutions with engineering teams.
• Collaborate with product engineering to ensure production readiness and security standards.

Skills

Python/Go/Java

Kubernetes

AWS cloud

CI/CD pipelines

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

Security best practices

Agile development

Team collaboration

Tools

Docker

Rancher

Mesos

Job description

Ripple is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer, DevOps to join our team and advance infrastructure, release pipelines, and developer tooling across multi‑region platforms. You will shape automation, monitoring, and scalable services while collaborating with diverse engineering groups.

Ideal candidates have 12+ years in DevOps, deep Kubernetes and AWS experience, and strong CI/CD and IaC capabilities. This role emphasizes secure, scalable delivery and cross‑team collaboration in a