Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

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.

We're building Ripple's data services group and are looking for a dedicated Senior Engineer that will build scalable data infrastructure to enable ML and analytics company-wide.

As a Senior or Staff DevOps Engineer on our data platform team, you will be responsible for the design, deployment, and continuous monitoring of data-intensive applications.

Your work will enable the developer experience for data engineers and data scientists. This person will bring a software engineering approach to infrastructure which will positive impact our culture of ownership, reliability, trust, and observability.

What We Are Looking For

• Excited about operating independently, demonstrating excellence, and learning new technologies and framework
• Excel at taking vague requirements and crystallizing them into scalable data solutions
• Enjoy helping teams push the boundaries of analytical insights, creating new product features using data, and powering machine-learning models.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline orchestration, leveraging Gitlab, Helm, and Terraform
• Have a strong background in developing distributed systems with experience in scalable data pipelines
• Ability to write elegant code and comfortable with picking up new technologies independently.
• Highly or conceptually familiar with AWS cloud resources (S3, Lambda, API Gateway, Kinesis, Athena, etc.,)
• Experience with administration of Docker or Kubernetes infrastructure
• Appreciate the importance of excellent documentation and data debugging skills.
• Proficient in at least one primary programming language (e.g. Java, Scala, Python) and comfortable working with SQL
• Experience with RESTful APIs and server-side APIs integration
• Familiar with big data technologies like Spark or Flink and comfortable in engineering data pipelines using big data technologies on financial datasets

Who We Are

Do Your Best Work

• Weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
• 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.
• The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
• 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).
• 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.
• We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!

Take Control of Your Finances

• Employee giving match
• Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
• Mobile phone stipend
• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity

Take Care of Yourself

• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
• Twice a quarter R&R days so you can rest and recharge
• Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events
• Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it

Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.

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