About the company
Our team is working on the next generation of crypto solutions. Whether you are looking for a role as a Blockchain Software Engineer in San Francisco, a Partner Engineer in London or a Sales Representative in Singapore, Ripple is the place to build something transformative.
Job Summary
As a Platform Engineer, you will play a critical role helping to advance Ripple's production infrastructure and release pipelines. Platform 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 provide guidance, automation, and development of platform features.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
Architect, deploy, and maintain Ripple’s multi-region, multi-provider service platforms (with an emphasis on security and resiliency) Design and develop tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency Create solutions for unique technical challenges faced by Ripple involving PKI, secret management, geographic failover, data replication, availability, and platform resiliency Create and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, leveraging data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction Collaborate with product engineering to ensure code is production-ready Participate in the leadership of DevOps-first principles within the organization Research promising new tools and technologies, push the team to experiment and evolve Participate in a robust and fair on-call framework
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
Bachelors degree in computer science or related field 2-5 years of hands-on development experience with experience in the following areas: Go, Python, Java, or C++ Experience designing and operating large scale, multi-region service platforms Experience developing APIs and SDKs Experience working with cloud infrastructures, particularly AWS and GCP Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker, Rkt, or OCI running on Kubernetes, Rancher, or Mesos Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc) Security awareness, with an emphasis on designing for security best practices Startup experience a big plus
