Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

As a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Ripple, you'll join the Platform Engineering team within the Custody department. You'll shape engineering practices and ensure the reliability and performance of infrastructure across a multi-cloud environment, empowering the engineering team to deliver innovative features with speed and efficiency.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient infrastructure across cloud providers including Azure, AWS, GCP, and IBM Cloud.
• Lead infrastructure architecture and reliability improvements for critical custody services.
• Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability across distributed systems.
• Own and evolve blockchain node infrastructure, including high availability, failover, and provider management.
• Build automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployments, testing, failover, incident response, and operational maintenance.
• Drive deployment operations and release reliability for platform and product services.
• Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and operational gaps before they impact customers.
• Participate in on-call rotations, support production incidents, and help improve incident response and post-incident learning.
• Contribute to internal platform tools, services, and developer workflows.
• Create clear documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures for critical systems.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on infrastructure, reliability, and platform engineering decisions.

What you bring

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or systems operations for highly available production systems.
• Experience managing blockchain nodes, including high availability, failover, and operational resilience.
• Experience operating infrastructure in high-traffic, customer-critical, or security-sensitive environments.
• Strong production experience with PostgreSQL.
• Proven experience provisioning and managing infrastructure with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Deep experience with containerized infrastructure and Kubernetes in highly available environments.
• Proficiency with programming and scripting languages such as .NET, Go, Bash, or TypeScript.
• Experience with messaging and queueing technologies such as RabbitMQ or AMQP.
• Experience with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with GitOps practices using platforms like Argo CD or Flux.
• Experience working with confidential computing solutions like AWS Nitro Enclaves, IBM Hyper Protect Virtual Servers, or GCP Confidential Computing.
• Excellent ability in solving problems and the ability to diagnose complex distributed system issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of working effectively across teams.
• A focus on clear procedures, strong documentation habits, and a dedication to operational excellence.

What we offer

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity.
• Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support.
• Employee giving match.
• Mobile phone stipend.
• Rest and recharge days.
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual programming.
• Generous vacation policy, work with your manager to take time off when you need it.
• Industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits.
• Professional development budget to support learning.
• In-office collaboration with flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month you come in.
• Team offsites, team bonding activities, and social events.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens, and premium snacks and beverages.

About Ripple

Ripple is building a world where value moves like information does today through crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers. The company improves the global financial system and creates greater economic opportunity for people worldwide.