Staff Infrastructure 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 build, scale, and maintain the infrastructure of an enterprise reconciliation application that delivers a world-class user experience to finance professionals. You'll collaborate with wider technical teams on the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of our products' infrastructure. As a technical domain leader, you'll provide guidance to your team and own the delivery of features, while helping raise the bar on engineering excellence through standard methodologies for architecture, coding, testing, and deployment.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale distributed infrastructure
- 4+ years serving as a technical lead and mentoring engineers
- Deep expertise in Linux and Windows server environments
- Strong experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible
- Scripting languages including Bash, Python, and PowerShell
- Experience with data infrastructure and processing technologies such as Spark and MSSQL
- Experience building systems that power high-volume transactional workloads, ideally in finance
- Cybersecurity experience is a plus
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
- Track record of building infrastructure that scales, stays available, and remains secure using Agile practices
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
Responsibilities
- Build, scale and maintain infrastructure of the enterprise reconciliation application
- Work with wider technical teams on the design, deployment and continuous improvement of infrastructure of products
- Provide technical guidance to the team and own the delivery of features
- Implement standard methodologies for architecture, coding, testing, and deployment
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office collaboration schedule
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, 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