Staff Platform Engineer, Ripple
Decentralised financial payments and solutions
Job no longer available
Decentralised financial payments and solutions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build breakthrough crypto solutions for a world without economic borders.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s 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
- 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 leveraging 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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 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, 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
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Ripple was founded in 2012 with a vision to create the Internet of Value: a concept allowing the transfer of money as swiftly as information could be shared on the Internet.
Ripple was one of the first blockchain companies to have a commercially viable product, quickly signing up more than 100 financial institutions to Ripplenet, which allowed customers to use XRP to source liquidity instantly. Despite a tumultuous market, RippleNet continues to grow, recently experiencing the highest amount of demand from both new and existing customers adopting on-demand liquidity transactions.
Through blockchain technology, Ripple is enabling global financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to move, manage and tokenize value. By helping organizations reach new markets and free working capital, Ripple has attracted clients including Cross, Bank of America, and Modulr.
Insights
34% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Dec 2019
$200m
SERIES C
Sep 2016
$55m
SERIES B
Total funding: $292.2m
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Founders
Brad Garlinghouse
(CEO, not founder)Previously SVP at Yahoo!, President of Consumer Applications at AOL, and the CEO and Chairman of the file-sharing site Hightail. Also has an MBA from Harvard.
David Schwartz
(CTO)Previously CTO of WebMaster Incorporated. Studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Houston.
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