Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
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'll play a key role in shaping engineering practices, ensuring the reliability and performance of the platform across a multi-cloud environment, and empowering the engineering team to deliver innovative features with speed and efficiency. You will drive improvements in automation, observability, and overall platform stability.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or systems operations for highly available production systems.
- Experience managing blockchain nodes, including high availability, failover, and operational resilience.
- Experience operating infrastructure in high-traffic, customer-critical, or security-sensitive environments.
- Strong production experience with PostgreSQL.
- Proven experience provisioning and managing infrastructure with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Deep experience with containerized infrastructure and Kubernetes in highly available environments.
- Proficiency with programming and scripting languages such as .NET, Go, Bash, or TypeScript.
- Experience with messaging and queueing technologies such as RabbitMQ or AMQP.
- Experience with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, or similar platforms.
- Familiarity with GitOps practices using platforms like Argo CD or Flux.
- Experience working with confidential computing solutions like AWS Nitro Enclaves, IBM Hyper Protect Virtual Servers, or GCP Confidential Computing.
- Excellent ability in solving problems and the ability to diagnose complex distributed system issues.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of working effectively across teams.
- A focus on clear procedures, strong documentation habits, and a dedication to operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient infrastructure across cloud providers including Azure, AWS, GCP, and IBM Cloud.
- Lead infrastructure architecture and reliability improvements for critical custody services.
- Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability across distributed systems.
- Own and evolve blockchain node infrastructure, including high availability, failover, and provider management.
- Build automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployments, testing, failover, incident response, and operational maintenance.
- Drive deployment operations and release reliability for platform and product services.
- Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and operational gaps before they impact customers.
- Participate in on-call rotations, support production incidents, and help improve incident response and post-incident learning.
- Contribute to internal platform tools, services, and developer workflows.
- Create clear documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures for critical systems.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on infrastructure, reliability, and platform engineering decisions.
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office collaboration days
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting with Leadership Team
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Health, retirement, family forming, and family support benefits
- 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