Ripple
Director of Engineering, Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, United States · Director · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$272k-$340kDetected 4 days ago
Node.jsDistributed SystemsAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDRESTIncident ResponseComplianceLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationArgo CD
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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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About the role
- It's big, it's bold, and we're already doing it.
- And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical and organizational strategy managing multi-cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platform at Ripple, balancing reliability, security, cost, and developer velocity y
- Lead multiple teams and managers across compute platform, cloud infrastructure, developer experience, and reliability engineering
- Define and deliver the multi-year infrastructure roadmap, including cluster architecture, workload orchestration, service networking, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD
- Drive multi-cloud strategy and execution: workload placement, portability, avoiding accidental lock-in, disaster recovery, and multi-region resilience
- Partner with Security and Compliance to build infrastructure that satisfies SOC 2, ISO 27001, and jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirements without slowing engineering down
- Own cloud spend for your organization, with clear accountability for efficiency and unit economics as the platform scales
- Provide hands-on technical leadership - architecture reviews, design docs, incident escalations, and the occasional pull request
- Scale the organization by attracting, hiring, and developing exceptional leaders and engineers at all levels
- We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
Requirements
- 12+ years of hands-on software and infrastructure engineering experience, including 5+ years leading teams and managing managers
- Deep, production-grade experience with Kubernetes at scale - multi-cluster and multi-tenant operations, upgrade strategy, workload isolation, autoscaling, and the failure modes you only learn about the hard way
- Experience operating across more than one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and a clear point of view on where multi-cloud pays for itself and where it doesn't
- Experience with service networking and service mesh technologies, and with securing traffic and identity across cloud boundaries
- Experience partnering with security and regulatory oversight functions in a regulated environment
- comfort with least-privilege, key management, and audit requirements
- Experience with Agile development, with a focus on robust design, scalability, and security
- BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or similar
Nice to have
- Bi-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!
- Employee giving match
- R&R days so you can rest and recharge
- experience in FinTech, payments, or crypto infrastructure
- familiarity with blockchain node operations
- exposure to hardware security modules or high-assurance key management systems.
- Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant's experience and qualifications for the position.
Skills
- You see infrastructure not as plumbing but as leverage:
Compensation
- For positions that will be based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is below.
Benefits
- Set the standard for operational excellence - SLOs, incident response, on-call health, blameless postmortems, and dynamic rollout practices - and hold the organization to it
Company info
- 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.
- In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
- Take Control of Your Finances
- Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
- Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Mobile phone stipend
- Take Care of Yourself
- 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.
- Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.
- Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, 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.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- plicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, militar
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