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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.

Developer Operations (DevOps) at Ripple drives communication, collaboration, and integration between the Development and Operations teams. Our goal is to optimize infrastructures, tools, and processes for faster and automated delivery of products.

THE WORK:

The Senior Software Engineer, DevOps will take part in the discovery, design, and implementation of solutions to improve infrastructure and release pipelines. These solutions will include developer infrastructure, capacity and load testing, CI/CD process automation. You will push the boundaries with new tools and technologies, using a data-driven approach for achieving desired results. Candidates should enjoy working openly with a diverse team and encourage optimal engineering practices.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Develop, deploy, and maintain Ripple’s multi-region, multi-provider service platforms.
• Contribute to design and development of tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency
• Lead discovery of next generation solutions, partnering broadly within Engineering on implementation, adoption, and continuous improvements
• Build new and automate existing platform and application lifecycle services, using data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
• Collaborate with product engineering to ensure code is production-ready
• Participate in the adoption of DevOps-first principles within the organization

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as DevOps or related roles
• Strong experience in either Python, Go, or Java
• Experience with large scale, multi-region service platforms
• Expertise in Kubernetes and experience working with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS
• Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker, Rkt, or OCI running on Kubernetes, Rancher, or Mesos
• Experience building deployment pipelines with common CI/CD tools
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Security awareness and focus on incorporating secure design principles
• Experience with Agile development of distributed services, focusing on robust software design, scalability, and security
• Positivity and keen interest in sharing knowledge

Other common titles and technologies: Infrastructure Engineer, Systems Engineer, Site Reliability, Platform Engineer, Argo, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jenkins, CircleCI, CodeDeploy, Spinnaker, Amazon Web Services, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, Serverless, IaC, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Graylog, Datadog, WhiteSource, Snyk, Twistlock, SonarQube, HashiCorp Vault, Kafka

WHO WE ARE:

Do Your Best Work

• The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
• A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact. A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
• Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
• Ripple is Flexible First: you have the option to work from home, from our offices, or a combination of the two around our centers of gravity (15 global offices).
• Weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
• We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!

Take Control of Your Finances

• 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

Take Care of Yourself

• Twice a quarter 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

Benefits listed above are for full-time Ripple employees. For all Metaco roles, please discuss benefits with your recruiter.