Senior Staff Platform Engineer at Ripple In Toronto

The Platform Engineering team at Ripple is a cross-functional Software Engineering & Operations team with involvement at all phases of our application & service release lifecycle that embraces the DevOps & GitOps principles of collaboration & integration.

As a Senior Staff Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for design & implementation of the production services, applications & platform components that comprise our backend. In this role you have the opportunity to leverage your technical skills in distributed systems, design & software development & to provide best-practices guidance for a novel new business that is based on Blockchain technology & moving billions of dollars globally.

WHAT YOULL DO

Work closely with operations & software engineering teams to design & implement scalable & high-performance solutions for our platform-as-a-service & internal management tools
Architect & develop tools for automation, monitoring, & instrumentation to reduce operational friction & increase engineering efficiency
Create solutions for unique technical challenges faced by Ripple involving PKI, secret management, geographic failover, data replication, availability, & platform resiliency
Create & automate new & existing platform & application lifecycle services, leveraging data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
Participate in the leadership of DevOps & GitOps principles within the organization
Research promising new tools & technologies, push the team to experiment & evolve

WHAT WERE LOOKING FOR

Bachelors and/or Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
10+ years of relevant work experience (8+ years of solid development background with Go, Python, or Java; 5+ years Experience designing & operating large scale, multi-region service platforms with emphasis on security)
Extensive experience working with cloud infrastructures, particularly AWS & GCP
Experience with container schedulers & runtimes such as Docker, or OCI running on Kubernetes, Rancher, or Mesos
Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd, etc.)
Experience in designing & building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
Experience with autoscaling, multi-cluster & Multi-AZ redundancy, log & application tracing (Jaeger, ELK, etc.)
A desire to get the best out of each individual on your team while building an inclusive environment that celebrates differences
Excellent organizational skills required to adapt to a constantly changing technical environment
Have excellent communication skills written, verbal & interpersonal

Ripple is flexible-first: Ripplers have the option to work remotely, from our offices, or a combination.

WHO WE ARE:

Ripple is doing for value what the internet did for information: enabling its instant & seamless flow around the world. We call this the Internet of Value (IoV). Using blockchain & cryptocurrency technology, Ripple is dedicated to creating powerful gains in financial efficiency, equity & inclusion. In addition, Ripple is developing & enabling the future use cases that will catalyze the new digital economy for governments, businesses & consumers.

Ripple has offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, London, Mumbai, Singapore, So Paulo, Reykjavk, Washington D.C. & Dubai.

Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Were committed to building a diverse & inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.

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