Singapore
senior
6 days ago
full-time
quality 7.6/10
Role in brief
Ripple is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead the infrastructure for their Reconciliation platform. This role is ideal for someone with extensive experience in cloud technologies and a collaborative mindset, eager to drive engineering excellence.
About the role
As a Senior Cloud Architect at Ripple, you will be responsible for setting and owning the architecture direction of the Reconciliation platform. Your focus will be on enhancing performance, stability, and security while mentoring a team of senior engineers.
The role requires hands-on involvement in prototyping and building critical components, while also establishing infrastructure standards. You will collaborate with diverse teams to drive engineering excellence and ensure the infrastructure scales effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Skills that matter here
- AWS: This role requires deep expertise in AWS for building and maintaining cloud infrastructure.
- Kubernetes: Experience with Kubernetes is essential for managing containerized applications.
- Linux: Proficiency in Linux server environments is necessary for infrastructure management.
- Windows: Experience with Windows server environments is also required.
- Terraform: You will utilize Terraform for infrastructure-as-code implementation.
- Python: Scripting in Python will be part of your responsibilities for automation and infrastructure management.
Who this role suits
- You thrive in collaborative environments and are energized by driving engineering standards.
- You welcome feedback and engage in rigorous discussions to enhance architectural decisions.
- You have a strong background in building scalable and secure infrastructure, particularly in high-volume transactional environments.
From the employer
What you'll do:
- Set and own infrastructure architecture direction.
- Drive architecture, scalability, and performance decisions across the platform.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior infrastructure engineers by reviewing designs, unblocking hard problems, and playing a key role in deepening the team's expertise.
- Establish infrastructure standards and patterns for the team to create a high benchline for quality, performance and maintenance of the system.
- Stay hands-on: prototype, build critical-path components, and get into the code where it matters while routine implementation and day-to-day operational work is owned by the senior engineers.
- Make and be accountable for infrastructure tradeoff decisions with long-term cost, scalability, or maintainability implications.
What you'll bring:
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and owning large-scale distributed infrastructure, including a track record of owning architecture decisions yourself, with 3+ years serving as a technical lead and mentoring engineers.
- Deep expertise with AWS & Kubernetes. Minimum 3+ years experience with each.
- Expertise in Linux and Windows server environments, with strong experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure.
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and ArgoCD, and scripting languages including Bash and Python.
- Experience with data infrastructure and processing technologies such as Spark and MSSQL.
- Experience building the systems that power high-volume transactional workloads, ideally in finance space.
- Cybersecurity experience is a plus.
- A track record of building infrastructure that scales, stays available, and remains secure, using Agile practices to ship reliably.
About you:
- You work openly and collaboratively with diverse teams, and you're energized by driving engineering excellence through better standards, processes, and shared knowledge.
- You welcome constructive feedback, actively inviting debate and rigorous discussion around your architectural ideas to deliver optimal outcomes.
Who We Are:
- 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.
Questions about this role
What is the remote policy?
In-office collaboration is important, with flexibility for teams to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
What level of experience is required?
This role requires 5+ years of hands-on experience and at least 3 years in a technical lead capacity.
How do I apply?
Candidates can apply through Ripple's website.
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