Summary

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will play a critical role helping to advance Ripple's production infrastructure and release pipelines. Infrastructure 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 support their infrastructure needs, ideally in a self-service environment.

WHAT YOULL DO:

• Build and provide platform features for compute, authentication, service discovery and calls, observability and redundancy
• Lead architectural approaches with the right tradeoffs between scale, cost and maintenance
• Coach junior engineers about design, development, testing and deployment best practices
• Deploy and maintain Ripples 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 and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, leveraging data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
• Propose scaleable, maintainable and cost effective solutions
• Participate in the leadership of DevOps and GitOps principles within the organization

WHAT WERE LOOKING FOR:

• Bachelors and/or Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
• Thinks about engineering excellence in tandem with the developer experience
• 8+ years of relevant work experience with solid development background with Go, Python, or Java
• Experience developing APIs and SDKs
• Experience working with cloud infrastructures, particularly AWS
• Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker 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 Prometheus
• 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

WHO WE ARE:

Do Your Best Work

• The opportunity to build 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.  A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
• Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
• Ripple is Flexible First: you have the option to work from home, from our offices, or a combination of the two around our centers of gravity (15 global offices).
• Weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
• We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!

Take Control of Your Finances

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
• Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
• Employee giving match
• Mobile phone stipend

Take Care of Yourself

• Twice a quarter R&R days so you can rest and recharge
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
• Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
• Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events

Benefits listed above are for full-time Ripple employees. For all Metaco roles, please discuss benefits with your recruiter. 

Skills

• App Development
• Communications Skills
• Development
• Python
• Software Engineering