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.
If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.
THE WORKAs a Senior Software Engineer on the RippleX Platform Engineering team, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of XRPL infrastructure. The Platform team operates at the intersection of software engineering, infrastructure, and operations—managing critical services, public test environments, and internal developer tooling. With strong foundations in DevOps and GitOps, the team is focused on delivering fully automated, highly available, and cost-efficient systems that enable developer velocity and protect the health of the XRPL ecosystem.
In this role, you’ll drive the design and development of platform components and infrastructure services that support distributed, high-throughput systems. You’ll help evolve core systems through automation, monitoring, and incident response, while influencing technical direction and mentoring other engineers.
WHAT YOU'LL DO- Design and implement scalable and resilient infrastructure supporting production-grade XRPL services and public blockchain networks.
- Build automation for infrastructure lifecycle, CI/CD workflows, and deployment pipelines using tools like Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions.
- Develop systems and services that support observability, secret management, disaster recovery, and regional failover.
- Improve platform reliability through proactive instrumentation, alerting, and incident response in collaboration with observability and security teams.
- Contribute to and maintain internal tooling, self-service workflows, and platform capabilities that support developer efficiency and service delivery.
- Evaluate new tools to improve infrastructure scalability and reduce manual overhead.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience.
- 4+ years of professional experience, including 2+ years operating cloud-native infrastructure at scale (AWS/GCP preferred).
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or Java, with a deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and concurrency.
- Proven experience with Kubernetes (EKS or similar), container runtimes (Docker/OCI), and service meshes (Istio, Linkerd, etc.).
- Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines and deploying infrastructure using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or similar.
- Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Helm, Ansible) and related automation practices.
- Familiarity with distributed systems monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent tools.
- Strong leadership and collaboration skills—able to align technical execution across teams while mentoring and developing talent.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on driving outcomes in complex and evolving environments.
WHO 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. A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
- Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
- In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
- We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!
Take 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 match
- Mobile phone stipend
Take 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 events
Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 2+ years operating cloud-native infrastructure at scale.
- Experience with AWS or GCP (cloud provider preference).
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or Java.
- Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and concurrency.
- Proven experience with Kubernetes (EKS or similar), container runtimes (Docker/OCI), and service meshes (Istio, Linkerd).
- Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines and deploying infrastructure using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or similar.
- Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code such as Terraform, Helm, or Ansible.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana) and observability practices.
- Experience with DevOps and GitOps practices for automated infrastructure lifecycle management.
- Strong leadership, collaboration, communication, and mentoring abilities.
Ripple Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ripple and has not been reviewed or approved by Ripple.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive coverage, including employer-paid medical, dental, and vision from day one, is emphasized alongside wellbeing resources and stipends. This indicates strong foundational healthcare support as part of total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of substantial duration and inclusive family-forming benefits (via fertility support) are highlighted. These offerings signal robust backing for diverse paths to parenthood.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or unlimited PTO paired with additional company-wide recharge days points to ample time-off provisions. Public materials also reference generous closures that facilitate periodic rest.
Ripple Insights
What We Do
Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain technology. By joining Ripple’s growing global network, financial institutions can process their customers’ payments anywhere in the world instantly, reliably and cost-effectively. Banks and payment providers can use the digital asset XRP to further reduce their costs and access new markets. Founded in 2012, Ripple's vision is to enable a world where value moves as seamlessly as information flows today—an Internet of Value. Ripple is the only enterprise blockchain company today with products in commercial use. Ripple’s global payments network includes over 300 customers across 40+ countries and six continents.
