Senior Staff DevOps Engineer

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 Developer Operations (DevOps) at Ripple manages communication, collaboration, and integration between Development and Operations teams. They ensure infrastructures, tools, and processes are streamlined and effective for automated product delivery.

The Senior Staff Software Engineer, DevOps will contribute to the discovery, development, and implementation of solutions to improve infrastructure and release pipelines. These solutions will include developer infrastructure, production infrastructure layout and maintenance, capacity and load testing, CI/CD infrastructure, and release process automation. You will push the boundaries with new tools and technologies and use a data-driven approach for achieving desired results. Candidates should enjoy working openly and collaboratively with a team with varied strengths and possess an ability to encourage and drive engineering standard processes.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Develop, deploy, and maintain Ripple’s multi-region, multi-provider service platforms
• Supply build and development of tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency
• Lead discovery of next-generation solutions and work with wider engineering teams on implementation, adoption, and continuous improvements
• Build and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, using data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
• Collaborate with product engineering to ensure code is production-ready
• Participate in the adoption of DevOps-first principles within the organization 

WHAT YOU'LL BRING: 

• 12+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps or related roles
• Strong experience in either Python, Go, or Java
• Experience managing extensive, multi-region service platforms
• Proficiency in Kubernetes and background in managing cloud infrastructure, especially AWS
• Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker, Rkt, or OCI 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.)
• Security awareness, with an emphasis on crafting for security standard methodologies
• Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software build, scalability, and security
• A positive demeanor and a passion for sharing knowledge