Ripple is hiring a

Web3 Senior Staff Platform Engineer

The Platform Engineering team at Ripple is a cross-functional Software Engineering and Operations team with involvement at all phases of our application and service release lifecycle that embraces the DevOps and GitOps principles of collaboration and integration.

As a Senior Staff Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of the production services, applications and platform components that comprise our backend. In this role, you have the opportunity to leverage your technical skills in distributed systems, design, and software development and to provide best-practices guidance for a novel new business that is based on Blockchain technology and moving billions of dollars globally.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Work closely with operations and software engineering teams to design and implement scalable and high-performance solutions for our platform-as-a-service and internal management tools.
• Architect and develop tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency
• Create solutions for unique technical challenges faced by Ripple involving PKI, secret management, geographic failover, data replication, availability, and platform resiliency
• Create and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, leveraging data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
• Participate in the leadership of DevOps and GitOps principles within the organization
• Research promising new tools and technologies, push the team to experiment and evolve

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
• 10+ years of relevant work experience (8+ years of solid development background with Go, Python, or Java; 5+ years Experience designing and operating large scale, multi-region service platforms with an emphasis on security)
• Extensive experience working with cloud infrastructures, particularly AWS and GCP
• Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker, Rkt, or OCI running on Kubernetes, Rancher, or Mesos
• Experience in designing and building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Experience with autoscaling, multi-cluster and Multi-AZ redundancy, log and application tracing (Jaeger, ELK, etc.)
• A desire to get the best out of each individual on your team while building an inclusive environment that celebrates differences.
• Excellent organizational skills are required to adapt to a constantly changing technical environment
• Excellent communication skills – written, verbal and interpersonal.

WHAT WE OFFER:

• The chance to work in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
• A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact
• Competitive salary and equity
• 100% paid medical and dental and 95% paid vision insurance for employees starting on your first day
• 401k (with match), commuter benefits
• Industry-leading parental leave policies
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite programs
• Flexible vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
• Employee giving match
• Modern office in San Francisco’s Financial District
• Fully-stocked kitchen with organic snacks, beverages, and coffee drinks
• Weekly company meeting - ask me anything >
• Team outings to sports games, happy hours, game nights and more!

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