Senior Cloud Architect
Ripple provides payments, custody and stablecoin solutions that help financial institutions integrate blockchain and digital assets.
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About Ripple
Ripple helps financial institutions transform global payments by providing blockchain-powered infrastructure for cross-border payments, digital asset custody, and stablecoin solutions. With it, users can enable instant settlements, reduce costs, and access new markets. The company was originally founded as OpenCoin in 2012 and rebranded to Ripple in 2015.
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About the Role
You will own the infrastructure architecture of the Reconciliation platform, focusing on performance, stability, security and scalability. You will mentor senior infrastructure engineers, set standards and patterns, stay hands-on building critical-path components, and make accountable tradeoff decisions.
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years designing and owning large-scale distributed infrastructure, 3+ years as technical lead
- 3+ years each with AWS and Kubernetes
- Linux and Windows server expertise, cloud on AWS and Azure
- Terraform, ArgoCD, Bash and Python
- Spark and MSSQL data infrastructure experience
- Experience with high-volume transactional systems, ideally finance
- Agile practices
- Cybersecurity experience a plus
Responsibilities
- Set and own infrastructure architecture direction
- Drive architecture, scalability and performance decisions
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior infrastructure engineers
- Establish infrastructure standards and patterns
- Prototype and build critical-path components
- Make accountable infrastructure tradeoff decisions
Benefits
- Competitive salary, bonuses and equity
- Healthcare covering physical and mental health
- Retirement benefits
- Family forming and family support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave
- Catered lunches and stocked kitchens
- Professional development budget