Senior Software Engineer, RippleX (Platform)

As a Senior Software Engineer on the RippleX Platform Engineering team at Ripple, 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. You'll drive the design and development of platform components supporting distributed, high-throughput systems, and help evolve core systems through automation, monitoring, and incident response.

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.
• Mentor other engineers and influence technical direction.

What you bring

• A 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 tools such as Terraform, Helm, and Ansible.
• 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.

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $180k-$220k (for California positions), plus equity and bonuses.
• Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support.
• Professional development budget to support learning.
• Flexible in-office collaboration, with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days a month they come in.
• R&R days to rest and recharge.
• 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.
• Employee giving match and mobile phone stipend.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens, and team offsites and bonding activities.

About Ripple

Ripple is building a world where value moves like information does today. Through crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers, Ripple is improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity worldwide.