Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Company: Ripple
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 7, 2025

Job Description:

Please note this is for San Francisco, CA, United States. You only need to apply to one location if there are multiple listed for the job.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.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:

• 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 standard processes
• Deploy and maintain Ripple's 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, using data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
• Propose scalable, maintainable and cost-effective solutions
• Participate in the leadership of DevOps and GitOps principles within the organizationWhat we're looking for:
  • Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field
  • 8+ 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 with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
  • Experience with real-time telemetry and tracing tools like Prometheus
  • Strong standout colleague 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 interpersonalFor 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: $188,000 - $211,499 USDWHO WE ARE:Do Your Best Work
    • The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
    • A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact.
    • Thrive in an environment where every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
    • In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture.
    • Weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership TeamTake Control of Your Finances
      • Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
      • Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
      • Employee giving matchTake Care of Yourself
        • R&R days so you can rest and recharge
        • Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
        • Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
        • Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.
        • Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun eventsBenefits listed above are for full-time employees.Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
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Keywords: Ripple, Elk Grove , Staff Software Engineer, Platform, IT / Software / Systems , San Francisco, California