Staff Software Engineer — Compliance Platform Architect

Ripple; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 212,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Ripple is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction for the compliance control plane, the vendor-agnostic, resilient system that moves value while preventing financial crime. You'll own the architecture across Ripple's product lines, drive platform strategy, mentor engineers, and partner with senior leaders to raise the engineering bar in a high-impact fintech environment.

Based in San Francisco or open to relocation to the Bay Area, this role offers market-leading

Qualifications

• 8+ years building production backend systems.
• Architecture ownership for complex distributed systems.
• Ability to drive technical direction across teams and influence decisions.

Responsibilities

• Set architectural direction for the compliance control plane.
• Drive the hardest technical problems end to end.
• Translate evolving regulatory obligations into engineering primitives and a roadmap.
• Mentor engineers and raise design quality across the team.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java / JVM

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

AWS

Job description

Ripple is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction for the compliance control plane, the vendor-agnostic, resilient system that moves value while preventing financial crime. You'll own the architecture across Ripple's product lines, drive platform strategy, mentor engineers, and partner with senior leaders to raise the engineering bar in a high-impact fintech environment.

Based in San Francisco or open to relocation to the Bay Area, this role offers market-leading