2 months ago
Base Salary
$236k - $295k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-year architectural vision for the compliance control plane, including screening orchestration, resilience and observability, vendor integrations, and decision and data planes.
- Drive high-ambiguity technical problems such as multi-vendor failover, sub-second real-time decisioning, regulator-grade auditability, and resilience across partial dependency failures.
- Define integration contracts, resilience patterns, and compliance primitives for adoption by partner engineering teams across organizational boundaries.
- Translate regulatory obligations and business goals into durable engineering primitives and sequenced technical roadmaps.
- Anticipate scaling constraints and platform risks and lead initiatives to address them before they become incidents.
- Partner with Engineering, Compliance, Legal, and Product leadership and represent the platform to auditors, regulators, and external partners.
- Set standards for observability, alerting, incident response, production ownership, and reliability.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers and improve design quality through architecture reviews.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience building production backend systems.
- Deep expertise in Java or comparable JVM languages, Go, or Rust.
- Experience owning architecture for complex distributed systems at scale across multiple teams or organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to set organizational-level technical direction and drive adoption without formal authority.
- Strong distributed-systems and resilience design expertise, including failover, graceful degradation, idempotency, and high-throughput real-time decisioning.
- Strong API design judgment and experience with REST or gRPC.
- Experience translating regulatory findings, audit obligations, and partner requirements into durable engineering plans and defending those decisions to auditors and examiners.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes, observability tooling such as Grafana or OpenTelemetry, and cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
- Experience developing senior and staff engineers and raising an organization’s technical bar.
- Experience in fintech, payments, identity, or compliance technology is preferred; adjacent high-stakes systems experience is also welcomed.
Benefits
- Professional development budget and access to a learning environment with experienced industry leaders.
- Flexible in-office collaboration, with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days per month employees come in.
- Team offsites, bonding activities, happy hours, and bi-weekly all-company meetings.
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support.
- Employee giving match and mobile phone stipend.
- R&R days, generous vacation, wellness reimbursement, and weekly onsite and virtual wellness programming.
- Industry-leading parental leave and family planning benefits.
- Catered lunches, stocked kitchens, snacks, beverages, and employee events.
- Full-time employee benefits apply to this role.
About Ripple
Ripple builds enterprise blockchain-based payments, treasury, and crypto liquidity products for banks, payment providers, businesses, and governments. It licenses software and provides network services that power cross-border transfers (including On-Demand Liquidity using XRP) and offers a CBDC platform for central banks. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Ripple serves over 300 customers across more than 40 countries.