Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient XRPL platform infrastructure. Automate CI/CD and IaC, improve observability and incident response, mentor engineers, and evaluate tooling to increase developer velocity and reliability.
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.
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
$172,000—$215,000 USD
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.
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.
Please find our UK/EU Applicant Privacy Notice and our California Applicant Privacy Notice for reference.
Ripple San Francisco, California, USA Office
San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94104
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