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Join Ripple as a Senior Software Engineer in Infrastructure to shape engineering practices, ensure platform reliability, and drive automation in a multi-cloud environment.
THE WORK
We are seeking a new Staff Software Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team of our Custody department. You'll play a key role in shaping our engineering practices, ensuring the reliability and performance of our platform across a multi-cloud environment, and empowering our engineering team to deliver innovative features with speed and efficiency. You will drive improvements in our automation, observability, and overall platform stability.WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient infrastructure across cloud providers including Azure, AWS, GCP, and IBM Cloud.
- Lead infrastructure architecture and reliability improvements for critical custody services.
- Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability across distributed systems.
- Own and evolve blockchain node infrastructure, including high availability, failover, and provider management.
- Build automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployments, testing, failover, incident response, and operational maintenance.
- Drive deployment operations and release reliability for platform and product services.
- Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and operational gaps before they impact customers.
- Participate in on-call rotations, support production incidents, and help improve incident response and post-incident learning.
- Contribute to internal platform tools, services, and developer workflows.
- Create clear documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures for critical systems.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on infrastructure, reliability, and platform engineering decisions.
WHAT YOU'LL BRING
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or systems operations for highly available production systems.
- Experience managing blockchain nodes, including high availability, failover, and operational resilience.
- Experience operating infrastructure in high-traffic, customer-critical, or security-sensitive environments.
- Strong production experience with PostgreSQL.
- Proven experience provisioning and managing infrastructure with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Deep experience with containerized infrastructure and Kubernetes in highly available environments.
- Proficiency with programming and scripting languages such as .NET, Go, Bash, or TypeScript.
- Experience with messaging and queueing technologies such as RabbitMQ or AMQP.
- Experience with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, or similar platforms.
- Familiarity with GitOps practices using platforms like Argo CD or Flux.
- Experience working with confidential computing solutions like AWS Nitro Enclaves, IBM Hyper Protect Virtual Servers, or GCP Confidential Computing.
- Excellent ability in solving problems and the ability to diagnose complex distributed system issues.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of working effectively across teams.
- A focus on clear procedures, strong documentation habits, and a dedication to operational excellence.
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
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 every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
- In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, with flexibility on in-office days.
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting for business updates and discussions with our Leadership Team.
- Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity.
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support.
- Employee giving match and mobile phone stipend.
- R&R days to rest and recharge, generous wellness reimbursement, and vacation policy.
- Industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits.
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens, and fun events.