Staff Network 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 serve as a technical architect and senior project lead for Ripple's global office networks. You'll enable world class, 99.9% uptime network and internet access, and support Ripple's accelerated growth through new office network design and commissioning. You'll be a high-impact individual contributor who defines Ripple's standard for global connectivity, approaching networking with a continuous improvement and end-user-experience-first mentality. This role blends high-level planning with practical senior engineering to support a workforce spread around the world.
Requirements
- Expert-level understanding of Arista EOS (CloudVision) and Aruba Central
- Deep experience with Palo Alto Networks (Panorama, GlobalProtect, and Prisma or equivalent experience)
- Understanding of cloud based Radius/TACACS+ authentication and certificate management platforms such as Arista AGNI, Foxpass, and ClearPass
- Expertise in Arista (EOS/CloudVision) and Juniper (JunOS) switching/routing stacks
- Experience with MLAG and LACP switch stacking for high availability
- Senior-level experience with Aruba wireless solutions, particularly Aruba Central in extensive global deployments with high user density
- Proficiency in NetDevOps tooling such as Python, Ansible
- Advanced administration of tools like Infoblox (DNS/DHCP/IPAM) in a high-availability, multi-site environment
- Proficiency with SNMP-based alerting and logging platforms (Auvix, Logicmonitor, etc)
- Expert knowledge of core protocols and standards such as BGP, BFD, STP, and 802.11ax/be wireless standards
- Experience with network modernization practices like SD-WAN and ZTNA
- Experience with new office network design and installation
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain Ripple Office networking standards that promote continuous improvement, agile scalability, and a world class end user experience
- Act as the final technical point of contact for resolving critical issues in the global network infrastructure
- Develop best practice utilization of automation, version control, and CI/CD
- Replace manual copy-paste configurations with cloud-managed deployment, reconciliation, and validation tooling
- Collaborate with Information Security and cross-functional teams to implement Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
- Develop a security and compliance posture that balances user experience
- Manage multi-million dollar global hardware through design, deployment, maintenance, and upgrades
- Own the 99.9% Network availability SLA
- Develop changes to architecture needed to meet the SLA and develop advanced observability
- Manage relationships with ISPs, hardware vendors, and professional services providers
- Lead cross-functional projects to meet international deliverables
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- In-office collaboration flexibility of 10+ days a month
- 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
- Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave policies and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages