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. Mentor 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 scalable, maintainable and efficient solutions
8. Participate in the leadership of DevOps and GitOps principles within the organization

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

1. Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical subject area
2. Thinks about engineering excellence in tandem with the developer experience
3. 8+ years of relevant work experience with a proven 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

WHO WE ARE:

Do Your Best Work

1. The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in. 
5. Weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
6. We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!

Skills

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