Staff Platform Engineer

Ripple - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Senior

San Francisco, CA

Publishing Industries

About the position

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will play a critical role helping to advance Ripple's production infrastructure and release pipelines. Infrastructure Engineers at Ripple are a hybrid of systems and software engineers who support the design and lifecycle of our hosted products. You will work closely with product engineers to support their infrastructure needs, ideally in a self-service environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and provide platform features for compute, authentication, service discovery and calls, observability and redundancy
• Lead architectural approaches with the right tradeoffs between scale, cost and maintenance
• Coach junior engineers about design, development, testing and deployment best practices
• Deploy and maintain Ripple's multi-region, multi-provider service platforms (with an emphasis on security and resiliency)
• Develop tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency
• Create and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, leveraging data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
• Propose scalable, maintainable and cost effective solutions
• Participate in the leadership of DevOps and GitOps principles within the organization

Requirements

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
• 8+ years of relevant work experience with solid development background with Go, Python, or Java
• Experience developing APIs and SDKs
• Experience working with cloud infrastructures, particularly AWS
• Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker running on Kubernetes, Rancher, or Mesos
• Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Experience with real-time telemetry and tracing tools like Prometheus
• Strong team player with a customer service orientation and ability to forge relationships at all levels of the company and across diverse cultures
• Excellent communication skills - written, verbal and interpersonal