Staff Software Engineer - Authentication & Authorization
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
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Authentication and Authorization platform team, you'll help shape how identity works across a growing portfolio of payment, custody, and liquidity products. You'll bring together products that have grown up using different identity providers and protocols into a unified, consistent experience, while building the fine-grained authorization primitives that teams rely on every day. AI tooling is core to how the team works day-to-day, including coding assistants, LLM-based workflows, and agentic tools across design, development, and operations, so you should already use these fluently.
Requirements
- Backend engineering experience in Golang or Java, including building and operating production applications within Kubernetes environments
- Experience designing or contributing to identity systems, ideally in a multi-tenant or federated context
- Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools as part of day-to-day engineering workflow
- Experience collaborating across teams and writing design documents that build alignment
- Familiarity with modern authentication protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML, and how they behave in production (nice to have)
- Experience with policy-as-code approaches to authorization (attribute-based, relationship-based, or hybrid) (nice to have)
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for the identity platform, including authentication flows, federation across multiple identity providers, and fine-grained authorization
- Lead the design and delivery of a unified identity experience across the product portfolio
- Build and operate platform services on Kubernetes, with a focus on reliability, observability, and secure secret management
- Partner with security, compliance, and product teams to translate regulatory requirements into platform capabilities
- Write clear technical proposals and contribute to architecture discussions across the engineering org
- Mentor engineers through code review, design feedback, and collaboration
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- In-office collaboration flexibility (10+ days a month)
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting with Leadership Team
- 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