Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About the role

Ripple is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team within its Custody department. You will shape engineering practices, ensure platform reliability across a multi‑cloud environment, and enable rapid delivery of innovative features.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient infrastructure on Azure, AWS, GCP, and IBM Cloud.
• Lead architecture and reliability improvements for critical custody services.
• Implement and enhance monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability across distributed systems.
• Own blockchain node infrastructure, ensuring high availability and failover.
• Automate provisioning, deployments, testing, incident response, and maintenance.
• Drive deployment operations and release reliability for platform and product services.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and reliability risks before they affect customers.
• Participate in on‑call rotations, support production incidents, and improve post‑incident processes.
• Contribute to internal platform tools, services, and developer workflows.
• Create documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures for critical systems.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on infrastructure and reliability.

Required profile

• 10+ years of experience in software, platform, infrastructure engineering or systems operations.
• Proven track record delivering highly available, large‑scale systems.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and ability to work autonomously.

Required skills

• Azure
• AWS
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• IBM Cloud
• Monitoring and alerting
• Logging and observability
• Blockchain node infrastructure
• Automation and infrastructure provisioning
• CI/CD and deployment operations
• Incident response and on‑call experience