Senior Staff DevOps Engineer
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 will contribute to the discovery, development, and implementation of solutions that improve infrastructure and release pipelines, including developer infrastructure, production infrastructure layout and maintenance, capacity and load testing, CI/CD infrastructure, and release process automation. You'll push the boundaries with new tools and technologies, using a data-driven approach to achieve desired results. You'll work openly and collaboratively with a team of varied strengths, and help encourage and drive engineering standard processes.
Requirements
- 12+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps or related roles
- Strong experience in either Python, Go, or Java
- Experience managing extensive, multi-region service platforms
- Proficiency in Kubernetes and background in managing 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 (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
- Security awareness, with an emphasis on crafting for security standard methodologies
- Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software build, scalability, and security
- A positive demeanor and a passion for sharing knowledge
Responsibilities
- Develop, deploy, and maintain Ripple's multi-region, multi-provider service platforms
- Build and develop tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency
- Lead discovery of next-generation solutions and work with wider engineering teams on implementation, adoption, and continuous improvements
- Build and automate new and existing 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 the adoption of DevOps-first principles within the organization
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office collaboration schedule
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave policies
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages