Staff DevOps Engineer

You'll contribute to the discovery, development, and implementation of solutions that improve infrastructure and release pipelines. You'll work across developer infrastructure, production infrastructure layout and maintenance, capacity and load testing, CI/CD infrastructure, and release process automation. You'll push the boundaries with new tools and technologies, using a data-driven approach to achieve results. You'll work openly and collaboratively with a team of varied strengths, helping to encourage and drive engineering standard processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and maintain Ripple's multi-region, multi-provider service platforms
• Build tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency
• Lead discovery of next-generation solutions and work with wider engineering teams on implementation, adoption, and continuous improvement
• Build and automate new and 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 organisation

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps or related roles
• Strong experience in either Python, Go, or Java
• Experience managing extensive, multi-region service platforms
• Proficiency in Kubernetes and background in managing cloud infrastructure, especially AWS
• Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker, Rkt, or OCI running on Kubernetes, Rancher, or Mesos
• Experience building deployment pipelines using common CI/CD tools
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Security awareness, with an emphasis on crafting for security standard methodologies
• Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software build, scalability, and security
• A positive demeanour and a passion for sharing knowledge

Benefits

• Professional development budget
• Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
• Employee giving match
• Mobile phone stipend
• R&R days to rest and recharge
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
• Generous vacation policy
• Industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits
• Catered lunches and fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages
• Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours