Ripple is hiring a

Web3 Staff Software Engineer, Data Services

Ripple is growing rapidly and we are looking for a results-oriented and passionate Staff Software Engineer to help create the next generation of data infrastructure built for scale, resilience and reliability. This is a high impact role. You will build real-time data pipelines and a data lake for valuable internal tools used by leadership, compliance, finance, and product teams to make strategic business decisions. You will be responsible for our Data API that powers public-facing applications used globally to follow the open-source ledger.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Build real time data pipelines and tools to keep pace with the growth of our data and its consumers
• Power our externally-facing data APIs and applications built on top of them
• Build foundational systems and services that allow users to focus on business and application logic via higher level programming models
• Design and implement systems for scalability, availability and graceful degradation
• Build frameworks for measuring and monitoring data quality and integrity
• Identify and analyze requirements and use cases from multiple internal teams (including Finance, Compliance, Analytics, Data Science, and Engineering); work with other technical leads to design solutions for the requirements

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Deep experience with distributed systems, distributed data stores, data pipelines, and other tools in cloud services environments (e.g. GCP, AWS)
• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Experience with distributed compute engines like BigTable, BigQuery, Dataflow, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, HBase
• Extensive experience with real time stream processing frameworks such as Beam, Kafka, Storm, Flink, Spark Streaming
• Expert knowledge of data modeling for large scale distributed data platforms
• Experience with data security, management and governance
• Experience with RESTful APIs and server-side APIs integration
• Proficient in SQL, Python, Java, Go
• Familiarity with Unix-like operating systems
• Familiarity with distributed ledger technology concepts and financial transaction/trading data
• Strong understanding of building operational excellence for data infrastructure
• You have a passion working with great peers and motivating teams to reach their potential
• You are a strong partner to other engineering and non-engineering teams and can drive cross-functional projects forward
• You have experience building internal infrastructure that is shared across teams

NICE TO HAVE:

• Experience in supporting Node.js in production is a plus
• Familiarity with Kubernetes
• Crypto domain experience or interes

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
• 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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