What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platform position at Ripple?
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.
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.
THE WORK :
The Platform Engineering team at Ripple is a multi-functional Software Engineering and Operations team with involvement at all phases of our application and service release lifecycle that embraces the DevOps and GitOps principles of collaboration and integration!
As a Senior Staff Engineer, Platform you will be responsible for design and implementation of the production services, applications and platform components that comprise our backend. In this role you have the opportunity to demonstrate your technical skills in distributed systems, design and software development and to provide best-practices mentorship for a novel new business that is based on Blockchain technology and moving billions of dollars globally.
WHAT YOU'LL DO :
- Work closely with operations and software engineering teams to craft and implement scalable and high-performance solutions for our platform-as-a-service and internal management tools
- Architect and develop tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency
- Build solutions for outstanding technical challenges faced by Ripple involving PKI, secret management, geographic failover, data replication, availability, and platform resiliency
- Build and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, using data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
- Participate in the leadership of DevOps and GitOps or equivalent experience principles within the organization
- Research promising new tools and technologies, push the team to experiment and evolve
WHAT YOU'LL BRING :
For 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
216,000-$270,000 USD
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Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.
Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.
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Salary : $216,000 - $270,000
