3 months ago
Base Salary
$160k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed with stream-aligned teams in 6–12 week engagements to build observability, CI/CD, and security capabilities.
- Coach teams on logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
- Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines and guide deployment automation and progressive delivery strategies.
- Integrate security scanning, threat modeling, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation into delivery pipelines.
- Identify operational bottlenecks and improve lead time, MTTR, and vulnerability remediation time.
- Develop reusable pipeline, dashboard, and security-control templates, documentation, and golden paths.
- Track DORA metrics, observability maturity, and security posture to demonstrate engagement improvements.
- Collaborate with the Subsystems Platform Team to create scalable self-service platform capabilities.
- Facilitate workshops, pairing sessions, and documentation to build lasting engineering-team competence.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering with hands-on exposure across multiple disciplines.
- Strong expertise with application observability, including structured logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, and alerts, using New Relic, Datadog, or similar tools.
- Required experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Octopus Deploy.
- Understanding of SAST, DAST, SCA, OWASP Top 10, threat modeling, secrets management, and DevSecOps integration.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools, plus knowledge of trunk-based development and version-control best practices.
- Understanding of SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, reliability engineering principles, Azure Key Vault, and HashiCorp Vault.
- Ability to coach and mentor engineering teams and communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to influence and guide multiple teams without direct authority and drive continuous improvement and team self-sufficiency.
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office collaboration with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days per month employees come in
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours
- Healthcare, retirement, family-forming, and family-support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days, vacation policy, parental leave, and family-planning benefits
- Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual programming
- Catered lunches, stocked kitchens, snacks, beverages, and company events
About Ripple
Using proven crypto and blockchain technology honed over a decade, Ripple’s enterprise-grade solutions are faster, more transparent, and more cost-effective than traditional financial services. Our customers use these solutions to source crypto, facilitate instant payments, empower their treasury, engage new audiences, lower capital requirements, and drive new revenue. Founded in 2012, Ripple's vision is to enable a world where value moves as seamlessly as information flows today—an Internet of Value. Ripple is the only enterprise blockchain company today with products in commercial use. Ripple’s global payments network includes over 300 customers across 40+ countries and six continents.