Senior Staff DevOps Engineer
Contribute to the discovery, development, and implementation of solutions that improve infrastructure and release pipelines, including developer infrastructure, production infrastructure, capacity and load testing, CI/CD infrastructure, and release process automation.
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 collaborate with wider engineering teams on implementation, adoption, and continuous improvement.
- Build and automate platform and application lifecycle services using data-driven declared-state convergence.
- Collaborate with product engineering to ensure code is production-ready.
- Participate in adopting DevOps-first principles across the organization.
Requirements
- 12+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps or related roles.
- Strong experience in Python, Go, or Java.
- Experience managing extensive, multi-region service platforms.
- Proficiency in Kubernetes and 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 with common CI/CD tools.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Security awareness and experience applying security standard methodologies.
- Experience with Agile development of distributed services focused on robust software build, scalability, and security.
- Positive demeanor and passion for sharing knowledge.
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office collaboration schedule
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Healthcare, retirement, family-forming, and family-support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and stocked kitchens