Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability
Ripple provides crypto and blockchain solutions for enterprises, enabling global financial entities to move, manage, and tokenize value. They focus on improving existing financial systems through partnerships and regulatory compliance, with products used in over 50 countries.
About Ripple
Ripple is an enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions company that aims to enable the world to move value as seamlessly as information moves today. Their mission is to build breakthrough crypto solutions for a world without economic borders. Using blockchain technology, Ripple facilitates global financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to move, manage, and tokenize value, thereby unlocking greater economic opportunity. The company works within existing financial systems to improve them, partnering with customers to streamline infrastructure and collaborating with regulators to ensure solutions are secure and compliant. Ripple's products are in commercial use by hundreds of customers across more than 50 countries, helping them expand into new markets, access liquidity solutions, and generate crypto-enabled revenue streams. They also support developers by providing tools for building on the XRP Ledger, a fast and sustainable public blockchain. Ripple’s payments, custody and stablecoin solutions empower financial institutions to integrate blockchain and digital assets into their business in a simple, secure, compliant way—all in one place. From instant payments to asset tokenization, blockchain and crypto are happening right now, across the world. It’s happening to suppliers, to retailers, to exchanges, to currencies, to sectors, to industries, to markets, and to global businesses. And it’s happening with Ripple.
Skills
About the Role
You'll spend most of your time doing hands-on observability and reliability engineering work, while also coaching and consulting with product teams to help them build operational maturity. You'll join the Technical Operations team and work across Azure and AWS environments supporting predominantly Windows-based infrastructure that handles significant payment volume for enterprise treasury customers. You'll design monitoring, alerting, and dashboards in New Relic, write NRQL queries, define SLOs/SLIs and error budgets, and lead alert noise reduction efforts. You'll develop and maintain Terraform infrastructure as code, establish IaC governance standards, and author Azure DevOps pipelines. You'll administer Incident.IO, build out incident management foundations including on-call rotations and escalation policies, track reliability metrics, and respond to production incidents. You'll also enable engineering teams through workshops and documentation to adopt improved observability and incident management practices.
Requirements
- 7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering with a focus on observability and production operations
- Proven ability to deliver hands-on engineering work while coaching and mentoring teams
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Expert-level hands-on experience with New Relic (APM, Infrastructure, Logs, Synthetics, Alerts) and strong NRQL proficiency
- Deep understanding of structured logging, metrics collection (RED/USE methods), and distributed tracing
- Expertise defining and implementing SLOs/SLIs and error budgets
- Hands-on experience with incident management platforms (Incident.IO, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, or similar)
- Experience designing incident response workflows, on-call rotations, and escalation policies
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex production issues using observability data
- Strong Terraform experience for cloud infrastructure and monitoring resources
- Proficiency with PowerShell scripting
- Strong experience with Azure cloud and working knowledge of AWS
- Experience with Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipeline authoring and troubleshooting
- Experience with Octopus Deploy for deployment management
- Comfort working across both Windows and Linux server environments
- Familiarity with Slack for operational workflows and alert routing
Responsibilities
- Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and dashboards in New Relic across Azure and AWS
- Write NRQL queries for troubleshooting, analysis, and reporting
- Define and implement SLOs/SLIs and error budgets
- Coach teams on using SLOs/SLIs to balance feature velocity with reliability
- Lead alert noise reduction and signal quality engineering
- Optimize observability costs through log ingestion management and pipeline rules
- Partner with engineering teams to improve observability maturity
- Develop and maintain Terraform infrastructure as code for monitoring resources
- Establish and enforce IaC governance standards for observability infrastructure
- Author and troubleshoot Azure DevOps pipelines
- Administer and configure Incident.IO including alert routing and notification workflows
- Build incident management foundations including PIR/postmortem processes and on-call rotation design
- Track and report on MTTR, MTTD, and incident frequency
- Respond to and debrief on production incidents
- Enable stream-aligned engineering teams through workshops and hands-on guidance
- Collaborate with the Subsystems Platform Team on self-service observability capabilities
- Build team competency through documentation and training materials
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office days
- Bi-weekly all-company meetings
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours
- Health, retirement, family forming, and family support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and fully-stocked kitchens