Summary

As a Staff Engineer, you will play a critical role helping to advance Ripple's production infrastructure Platform 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:

• Architect a scalable networking solution across Ripples AWS VPC to support internal services and external customer connectivity
• 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 YOU'LL BRING:

• 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
• Working knowledge of deploying networking for cloud environments (mid to large scale)
• Inter Network communication and design experience
• Fundamentals of System Design
• AWS Networking Services: VPC Design, Inter VPC Routing (Transit Gateways, VPC Peering), Ingress/Egress Services
• Experience with automation
• Services for Multi Account design like AWS Organization, AWS Control Tower
• Working knowledge of DNS
• Working knowledge of IP Address Management
• Experience working with cloud infrastructures, particularly AWS
• 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

Skills

• AWS
• Communications Skills
• Development
• Python
• Software Engineering