Staff Software Engineer — Real-Time Compliance Platform

Ripple; United States; On-site; USD 212,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Ripple is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to set the technical direction for the compliance control plane and own its architecture across multiple product lines. You will drive end-to-end resilience, real-time decisioning, and regulator-grade auditability for a high-throughput payments platform.

You will mentor engineers, influence cross-functional teams, and partner with senior leaders to translate regulatory requirements into durable engineering plans, ensuring platform reliability and

Qualifications

• 8+ years building production backend systems.
• Ability to own architecture for complex distributed systems at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical direction across teams.
• Experience with Kubernetes, observability tooling, and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Set architectural direction for the compliance control plane and drive evolution across Ripple's product lines.
• Solve high-ambiguity problems end-to-end, including multi-vendor failover and sub-second decisioning.
• Translate regulatory obligations into durable engineering primitives and a clear roadmap.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the team.
• Partner with senior leaders to align cross-functional objectives with engineering reality.

Skills

Java

Distributed Systems

Architecture Ownership

Mentoring

Kubernetes

AWS

Observability

Tools

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Ripple is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to set the technical direction for the compliance control plane and own its architecture across multiple product lines. You will drive end-to-end resilience, real-time decisioning, and regulator-grade auditability for a high-throughput payments platform.

You will mentor engineers, influence cross-functional teams, and partner with senior leaders to translate regulatory requirements into durable engineering plans, ensuring platform reliability and