Ripple is hiring a

Web3 Staff Platform Engineer

This person can be located in our Toronto, Remote (US), New York City, San Francisco, or Miami office.

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will play a critical role in helping to advance Ripple's production infrastructure and release pipelines. Staff Platform Engineers at Ripple are a hybrid of systems and software engineers who support the design and lifecycle of our hosted products. You will work closely with product engineers to provide guidance, automation, and development of platform features.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Deploy and maintain Ripple’s multi-region, multi-provider service platforms (with an emphasis on security and resiliency)
• 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
• Collaborate with product engineering to ensure code is production-ready
• Participate in the leadership of DevOps and GitOps principles within the organization

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
• 7+ years of relevant work experience (5+ years of solid development background with Go, Python, or Java; 3+ years Experience designing and operating large scale, multi-region service platforms)
• Experience developing APIs and SDKs
• Experience working with cloud infrastructures, particularly AWS and GCP
• Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker or OCI running on Kubernetes, Rancher, or Mesos
• Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc)
• Experience with real-time telemetry and tracing tools like Jaeger and Prometheus
• Security awareness, with an emphasis on designing for security best practices
• Strong team player with a customer service orientation and ability to forge relationships at all levels of the company and across diverse cultures
• Have excellent communication skills – written, verbal and interpersonal

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