Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Ripple – Geneva | Jobyssey

You'll play a key role in shaping engineering practices, ensuring the reliability and performance of the platform across a multi-cloud environment, and empowering the engineering team to deliver innovative features with speed and efficiency. You will drive improvements in automation, observability, and overall platform stability.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient infrastructure across cloud providers including Azure, AWS, GCP, and IBM Cloud.
Lead infrastructure architecture and reliability improvements for critical custody services.
Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability across distributed systems.
Own and evolve blockchain node infrastructure, including high availability, failover, and provider management.
Build automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployments, testing, failover, incident response, and operational maintenance.
Drive deployment operations and release reliability for platform and product services.
Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and operational gaps before they impact customers.
Participate in on-call rotations, support production incidents, and help improve incident response and post-incident learning.
Contribute to internal platform tools, services, and developer workflows.
Create clear documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures for critical systems.
Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on infrastructure, reliability, and platform engineering decisions.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or systems operations for highly available production systems.
Experience managing blockchain nodes, including high availability, failover, and operational resilience.
Experience operating infrastructure in high-traffic, customer-critical, or security-sensitive environments.
Strong production experience with PostgreSQL.
Proven experience provisioning and managing infrastructure with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
Deep experience with containerized infrastructure and Kubernetes in highly available environments.
Proficiency with programming and scripting languages such as .NET, Go, Bash, or TypeScript.
Experience with messaging and queueing technologies such as RabbitMQ or AMQP.
Experience with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, or similar platforms.
Familiarity with GitOps practices using platforms like Argo CD or Flux.
Experience working with confidential computing solutions like AWS Nitro Enclaves, IBM Hyper Protect Virtual Servers, or GCP Confidential Computing.
Excellent ability in solving problems and the ability to diagnose complex distributed system issues.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of working effectively across teams.
A focus on clear procedures, strong documentation habits, and a dedication to operational excellence.

Benefits

Professional development budget
Flexible in-office collaboration days
Bi-weekly all-company meeting with Leadership Team
Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours
Competitive bonuses and equity
Health, retirement, family forming, and family support benefits
Employee giving match
Mobile phone stipend
R&R days
Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
Generous vacation policy
Parental leave policies and family planning benefits
Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages

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