Senior Staff Software Engineer, DevOps

About the Role

You will join Ripple as a Senior Staff Software Engineer, DevOps, leading DevOps initiatives to streamline automated product delivery across multi-region platforms. The role focuses on discovery, development, and implementation of infrastructure, release pipelines, and developer tooling to improve reliability and efficiency. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to push for DevOps-first practices and data-driven improvements.

What You'll Do

• Develop, deploy, and maintain Ripple’s multi-region, multi-provider service platforms

• Supply build and development of tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency

• Lead discovery of next-generation solutions and work with wider engineering teams on implementation, adoption, and continuous improvements

• Build and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, using data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction

• Collaborate with product engineering to ensure code is production-ready

• Participate in the adoption of DevOps-first principles within the organization

• What We're Looking For

• 12+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps or related roles

• Strong experience in either Python, Go, or Java

• Experience managing extensive, multi-region service platforms

• Proficiency in Kubernetes and background in managing cloud infrastructure, especially AWS

• Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker, Rkt, or OCI running on Kubernetes, Rancher, or Mesos

• Experience building deployment pipelines using common CI/CD tools

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)

• Security awareness, with an emphasis on crafting for security standard methodologies

• Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software build, scalability, and security

• A positive demeanor and a passion for sharing knowledge

• Compensation & Benefits

• NY Annual Base

Salary

Range: 220,000 USD – 260,000 USD

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity; benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
• Employee giving match
• Mobile phone stipend
• R&R days and generous wellness reimbursement
• Generous vacation policy; industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits