Ripple

Senior Software Engineer, RippleX (Platform)

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2 months ago

Base Salary

$1 - $2/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable, resilient infrastructure for production XRPL services and public blockchain networks.
  • Build infrastructure lifecycle automation, CI/CD workflows, and deployment pipelines.
  • Develop systems supporting observability, secret management, disaster recovery, and regional failover.
  • Improve reliability through instrumentation, alerting, and incident response with observability and security teams.
  • Maintain internal tooling, self-service workflows, and platform capabilities that improve developer efficiency and service delivery.
  • Evaluate tools that improve infrastructure scalability and reduce manual overhead.
  • Influence technical direction and mentor other engineers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 4 years of professional experience, including at least 2 years operating cloud-native infrastructure at scale.
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or Java, with deep knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and concurrency.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, EKS or similar platforms, Docker or OCI container runtimes, and service meshes such as Istio or Linkerd.
  • Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or similar tools.
  • Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Helm, and Ansible.
  • Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Strong leadership, collaboration, communication, problem-solving, and mentoring abilities.

Benefits

  • Professional development budget and learning opportunities
  • Flexible in-office collaboration with teams deciding which 10+ days per month to work onsite
  • Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours, and bi-weekly company meetings
  • Healthcare, retirement, family-forming, and family-support benefits
  • Employee giving match and mobile phone stipend
  • R&R days, vacation policy, wellness reimbursement, and parental leave
  • Family planning benefits, catered lunches, stocked kitchens, and onsite and virtual programming

Tech Stack

AnsibleDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGrafanaHelmIstioJavaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonTerraform

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About Ripple

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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