Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Ripple; California; On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for their Platform Engineering team. This role involves designing and implementing production services and applications that leverage cutting-edge blockchain technology. You will collaborate closely with operations and software engineering teams to create scalable, high-performance solutions while mentoring others in best practices. Join a dynamic environment where your contributions will significantly impact the global financial system, and enjoy opportunities for professional growth and development. This is your chance to thrive in a supportive and innovative setting that values diversity and teamwork.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonuses

Equity

Wellness reimbursement

Generous vacation policy

Catered lunches

Mobile phone stipend

Employee giving match

R&R days

Team bonding activities

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software development with a focus on large-scale platforms.
• Strong background in distributed systems and cloud infrastructures.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend services and applications.
• Build automation tools to enhance operational efficiency.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Cloud Infrastructure

Containerization

CI/CD

Infrastructure-as-Code

Security Practices

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jaeger

ELK

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:

The Platform Engineering team at Ripple is a multi-functional Software Engineering and Operations team with involvement at all phases of our application and service release lifecycle that embraces the DevOps and GitOps principles of collaboration and integration!

As a Senior Staff Engineer, Platform you will be responsible for design and implementation of the production services, applications and platform components that comprise our backend. In this role you have the opportunity to demonstrate your technical skills in distributed systems, design and software development and to provide best-practices mentorship for a novel new business that is based on Blockchain technology and moving billions of dollars globally.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Work closely with operations and software engineering teams to craft and implement scalable and high-performance solutions for our platform-as-a-service and internal management tools
• Architect and 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
• Participate in the leadership of DevOps and GitOps or equivalent experience principles within the organization
• Research promising new tools and technologies, push the team to experiment and evolve

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical subject area
• 10+ years of meaningful work experience (8+ years of proven development background with Go, Python, or Java; 5+ years proven experience crafting and operating large scale, multi-region service platforms with emphasis on security)
• Extensive 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 with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd, etc.)
• Experience in crafting and building deployment pipelines using common CI/CD tools
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Experience with autoscaling, multi-cluster and Multi-AZ redundancy, log and application tracing (Jaeger, ELK, etc.)
• A desire to get the best out of each individual on your team while building an inclusive environment that celebrates diversity.
• Excellent interpersonal skills required to adapt to a constantly evolving technical environment. Have excellent communication skills – written, verbal and interpersonal

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.