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:
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.
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 organization
WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field
- Thinks about engineering perfection in tandem with the developer experience
- 8+ years of relevant work experience with solid development background with Go, Python, or Java; with a strong command of software engineering best practices and system design
- Experience working with cloud providers like AWS
- Proficiency in orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Rancher) and containerization technologies to deploy and manage high-availability distributed services
- Experience building deployment pipelines using common CI/CD tools
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
- Experience architecting and scaling Observability platforms leveraging Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, focusing on building self-service instrumentation patterns that enable engineering teams to monitor SLOs/SLIs via distributed tracing and high-cardinality metrics
- 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 interpersonal
For positions that will be based in Toronto, 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.
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, Computer Engineering or related technical field
- 8+ years of relevant work experience
- Solid development background with Go, Python, or Java
- Experience working with cloud providers like AWS
- Proficiency in orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Rancher) and containerization technologies
- Experience building deployment pipelines using CI/CD tools
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience architecting and scaling observability platforms leveraging Prometheus and OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing
- Experience deploying and maintaining multi-region, multi-provider service platforms with emphasis on security and resiliency
- Strong communication, coaching ability, and customer-service orientation
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.
