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 for a reconciliation platform, setting standards for scalability, performance, security, and maintainability. You will mentor infrastructure engineers, review designs, solve difficult technical problems, build critical components, and make long-term architecture trade-offs.
Requirements
- 5+ years designing and owning large-scale distributed infrastructure
- 3+ years as a technical lead and mentor
- 3+ years of AWS experience
- 3+ years of Kubernetes experience
- Expertise in Linux and Windows server environments
- Experience building cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure
- Proficiency with Terraform, ArgoCD, Bash, and Python
- Experience with Spark and MSSQL
- Experience supporting high-volume transactional workloads
- Agile delivery experience
Responsibilities
- Set infrastructure architecture direction
- Drive scalability and performance decisions
- Mentor senior infrastructure engineers
- Review designs and unblock complex technical problems
- Establish infrastructure standards and patterns
- Prototype and build critical-path components
- Make long-term infrastructure trade-off decisions
Benefits
- Bonuses
- Equity
- Healthcare benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Family-forming and family-support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement
- Vacation policy
- Parental leave
- Catered lunches
- Stocked kitchens
- Team offsites and social events