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Ripple is building infrastructure for the global financial system using blockchain and crypto solutions. As a Senior Software Engineer on the RippleX Platform Engineering team, you'll be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of XRPL (XRP Ledger) 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 and infrastructure services that support distributed, high-throughput systems. Your work will focus on evolving core systems through automation, monitoring, and incident response, while influencing technical direction and mentoring other engineers on the team.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and implement scalable, resilient infrastructure supporting production-grade XRPL services and public blockchain networks
- Build automation for infrastructure lifecycle, CI/CD workflows, and deployment pipelines using Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions
- Develop systems and services supporting observability, secret management, disaster recovery, and regional failover
- Improve platform reliability through proactive instrumentation, alerting, and incident response
- Contribute to and maintain internal tooling and self-service workflows that support developer efficiency
- Evaluate new tools to improve infrastructure scalability and reduce manual overhead
You'll need 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 are essential, along with deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and concurrency. Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker/OCI containers, service meshes (Istio, Linkerd), CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Helm, Ansible) is required. Familiarity with distributed systems monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent tools is expected. Strong leadership and collaboration skills, with ability to mentor and develop talent, are important for success in this role.
