Senior Staff DevOps Engineer
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
Contribute to the discovery, development, and implementation of solutions that improve infrastructure and release pipelines, including developer infrastructure, production infrastructure, capacity and load testing, CI/CD infrastructure, and release process automation.
Requirements
- 12+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps or related roles
- Strong experience in Python, Go, or Java
- Experience managing extensive, multi-region service platforms
- Proficiency in Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, especially AWS
- Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker, Rkt, or OCI running on Kubernetes, Rancher, or Mesos
- Experience building deployment pipelines using common CI/CD tools
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- Security awareness with emphasis on security standard methodologies
- Experience with Agile development of distributed services focused on robust software build, scalability, and security
- Positive demeanor and passion for sharing knowledge
Responsibilities
- Develop, deploy, and maintain multi-region, multi-provider service platforms
- Build tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency
- Lead discovery of next-generation solutions and collaborate with wider engineering teams on implementation, adoption, and continuous improvements
- Build and automate platform and application lifecycle services using data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
- Collaborate with product engineering to ensure code is production-ready
- Participate in adopting DevOps-first principles across the organization
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- In-office flexibility with the option to choose which 10+ days per month to attend
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting with the Leadership Team
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and fully stocked kitchens