Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
About The Position
At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. It’s big, it’s bold, and we’re already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs. If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value. Ripple Treasury, now a Ripple solution, was acquired by Ripple in 2025, marking a significant expansion into the multi-trillion-dollar corporate finance arena. Ripple Treasury has more than 40 years of experience supporting some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated companies. Integrating its treasury command center into Ripple’s technology stack gives corporates the ability to move, manage and optimize liquidity in real-time, across traditional and digital assets, under one expanded umbrella. Join us to build the future of corporate treasury and the infrastructure that powers the Internet of Value.
Requirements
- Hands-on proficiency in Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform.
- Strong software engineering skills with proficiency in Python, Go, PowerShell, and/or Bash.
- Proven experience owning cloud security and governance in a regulated environment.
- Demonstrated experience leading FinOps practices and communicating findings to leadership.
- Track record of defining and accomplishing multi-quarter infrastructure roadmaps.
- Experience serving as a principal technical authority and setting engineering standards.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills.
- Experience taking part in on-call rotations and applying that exposure to guide platform decisions.
- A strong approach to mentorship and talent development.
Nice To Haves
- Ideally, experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of and lead the cloud infrastructure platform strategy and multi-quarter roadmap across engineering teams.
- Serve as the principal infrastructure authority on platform architecture, cloud patterns, and engineering standards.
- Define reference architectures and reusable infrastructure models that empower engineering teams to build and ship reliably at scale.
- Partner with product and engineering leadership to ensure infrastructure capabilities are built early in the solution lifecycle.
- Take responsibility for the security stance of the cloud infrastructure platform in collaboration with the security team.
- Define and enforce cloud governance policies, tagging standards, access controls, and architectural guardrails.
- Take responsibility for FinOps methods related to the cloud platform, delivering insights and suggestions to engineering and finance leadership.
- Build and maintain production-quality internal platform tooling and automation across Azure and AWS.
- Direct the assessment and incorporation of new infrastructure technologies, take part in the on-call rotation, and apply production experience to guide platform enhancements.
- Proactively identify and resolve technical conflicts and priority misalignments across teams; lead technical build reviews.
- Guide Senior and mid-level engineers, take an active role in the hiring process, and foster a culture of knowledge sharing.
Benefits
- Professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
- Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
- Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days so you can rest and recharge
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
- Industry-leading parental leave policies.
- Family planning benefits.
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
