Summary

Ripple is growing rapidly and we are looking for a 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. Do you like to 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? This engineer will be responsible for our Data API that powers public-facing applications used globally to follow the open-source ledger.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

1. Build real time pipelines and tools to keep pace with the growth of our data and its consumers
2. Power our externally-facing data APIs and applications built on top of them
3. Build foundational systems and services that allow users to focus on business and application logic via higher level programming models
4. Design and implement systems for scalability, availability and graceful degradation
5. Build frameworks for measuring and supervising data quality and integrity

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

1. 8+ Years in Software Engineering
2. Proficient in at least one primary programming language (e.g. Java, Scala, Python) and comfortable working with SQL
3. Ability to write sophisticated code and comfortable with picking up new technologies independently. Have a strong background in developing distributed systems with experience in scalable data pipelines
4. Familiar with technologies like Spark or Flink and comfortable in engineering data pipelines using data technologies on financial datasets
5. Highly or conceptually familiar with AWS cloud resources (S3, Lambda, API Gateway, Kinesis, Athena, etc.,) Experience with RESTful APIs and server-side APIs integration
6. Experience with CI/CD pipeline orchestration, using Gitlab, Helm, and Terraform Experience with administration of Docker or Kubernetes infrastructure
7. Excited about operating independently, demonstrating excellence, and learning new technologies and frameworks

For positions that will be based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is below. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant’s experience and qualifications for the position. This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions. 

CA Annual Base Salary Range

$188,000—$211,499 USD

Skills

• AWS
• Development
• Software Engineering
• SQL
• Team Collaboration