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 YOU’LL DO:

1. Build and provide platform features for compute, authentication, service discovery and calls, observability and redundancy
2. Lead architectural approaches with the right tradeoffs between scale, cost and maintenance
3. Coach junior engineers about design, development, testing and deployment best practices
4. Deploy and maintain Ripple’s multi-region, multi-provider service platforms (with an emphasis on security and resiliency)
5. Develop tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency
6. Create and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, leveraging data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
7. Propose scaleable, maintainable and cost effective solutions
8. Participate in the leadership of DevOps and GitOps principles within the organization

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

1. Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
2. Thinks about engineering excellence in tandem with the developer experience
3. 8+ years of relevant work experience with solid development background with Go, Python, or Java
4. Experience developing APIs and SDKs
5. Experience working with cloud infrastructures, particularly AWS
6. Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker running on Kubernetes, Rancher, or Mesos
7. Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools
8. Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
9. Experience with real-time telemetry and tracing tools like Prometheus
10. Strong team player with a customer service orientation and ability to forge relationships at all levels of the company and across diverse cultures
11. Have excellent communication skills – written, verbal and interpersonal

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

$187,200—$234,000 USD

Skills

• AWS
• Communications Skills
• Development
• Java
• Python
• Software Engineering
• Team Collaboration