Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platform

P2P; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 216,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join their Platform Engineering team. In this role, you'll design and implement backend services and applications that drive the company's blockchain-based solutions. This position offers the chance to tackle complex technical challenges while mentoring others and pushing the boundaries of technology. Join a collaborative environment where your contributions will directly impact the global financial system, and enjoy a culture that values diversity and inclusion. With competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and opportunities for professional growth, this is a unique chance to make your mark in a fast-paced, transformative industry.

Benefits

Competitive salary and bonuses

Generous vacation policy

Wellness reimbursement

Mobile phone stipend

Catered lunches

Weekly onsite & virtual programming

Professional development budget

Employee giving match

R&R days

In-office collaboration flexibility

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software development and operations.
• Experience with large scale, multi-region service platforms.
• Strong background in security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement production services and applications.
• Architect tools for automation and monitoring.
• Lead DevOps and GitOps principles within the organization.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, GCP)

CI/CD Tools

Infrastructure-as-Code

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd)

Autoscaling and Multi-AZ Redundancy

Excellent Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jaeger

ELK Stack

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.

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

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

$216,000—$270,000 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.
• 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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