Ripple
Senior Software Engineer, RippleX (Platform)
San Francisco, CA, United States · Senior · Full-time
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$21,149 more — $193,149 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $193,149 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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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.
- With strong foundations in DevOps and GitOps, the team is focused on delivering fully automated, highly available, and cost-efficient systems that enable developer velocity and protect the health of the XRPL ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable and resilient infrastructure supporting production-grade XRPL services and public blockchain networks.
- Build automation for infrastructure lifecycle, CI/CD workflows, and deployment pipelines using tools like Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions.
- Develop systems and services that support observability, secret management, disaster recovery, and regional failover.
- Contribute to and maintain internal tooling, self-service workflows, and platform capabilities that support developer efficiency and service delivery.
- Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines and deploying infrastructure using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or similar.
- Strong leadership and collaboration skills-able to align technical execution across teams while mentoring and developing talent.
- The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
- We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field-or equivalent practical experience.
- Proven experience with Kubernetes (EKS or similar), container runtimes (Docker/OCI), and service meshes (Istio, Linkerd, etc.).
Nice to have
- 4+ years of professional experience, including 2+ years operating cloud-native infrastructure at scale (AWS/GCP preferred).
Compensation
- For positions that will be based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is below.
- CA Annual Base Salary Range
- $172,000 - $215,000 USD
- Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
Benefits
- This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions.
- 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.
- Mobile phone stipend
Company info
- Do Your Best Work
- 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.
- 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!
- 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
- Take Care of Yourself
- R&R days so you can rest and recharge
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
This listing is sourced directly from Ripple's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.