Software Engineer II, Platform
At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. It’s big, it’s bold, and we’re already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.
If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.
As a Staff 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:
Contribute to platform features across compute, authentication, service discovery, observability, and redundancy
Implement architectural solutions under the guidance of senior engineers, with a growing awareness of tradeoffs between scale, cost, and maintenance
Support and mentor junior engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing
Help deploy and maintain Ripple's multi-region, multi-provider service platforms with a focus on security and reliability
Build and improve tooling for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction
Contribute to platform and application lifecycle services, working toward automated, data-driven workflows
Participate in discussions around scalable, maintainable, and cost-effective solutions
Learn and apply DevOps and GitOps principles in your day-to-day work
What we’re looking for:
Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
3–6 years of relevant work experience with development background in Go, Python, or Java, with a good understanding of software engineering best practices and system design
Hands-on experience with cloud providers like AWS
Working knowledge of orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Rancher) and containerization technologies for deploying and managing distributed services
Experience contributing to deployment pipelines using common CI/CD tools
Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
Exposure to Observability platforms leveraging Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, with an interest in building instrumentation patterns and monitoring SLOs/SLIs
A collaborative team player with a customer service orientation and a willingness to build relationships across teams and cultures
Good communication skills — written, verbal, and interpersonal