About Company
Using proven crypto and blockchain technology honed over a decade, Ripples enterprise-grade solutions are faster, more transparent, and more cost-effective than traditional financial services. Our customers use these solutions to source crypto, facilitate instant payments, empower their treasury, engage new audiences, lower capital requirements, and drive new revenue. Founded in 2012, Ripple's vision is to enable a world where value moves as seamlessly as information flows todayan Internet of Value. Ripple is the only enterprise blockchain company today with products in commercial use. Ripples global payments network includes over 300 customers across 40+ countries and six continents.
Job Description
Summary
As a Senior Software Engineer, Platform, 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
- Build and provide platform features for compute, authentication, service discovery and calls, observability and redundancy
- 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
- Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related technical field. Equivalent experience will also be considered.
- Thinks about engineering excellence in tandem with the developer experience
- 5+ 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 using 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
Skills
- Application Programming Interface (API)
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Effective communication
- Programming language (R, Python, Scala, Matlab)
- Teamwork
