Staff Software Engineer - Authentication & Authorization
As a Staff Software Engineer on Ripple's Authentication and Authorization platform team, you will shape identity across payment, custody, and liquidity products. You will unify identity providers and protocols, build fine-grained authorization primitives, operate Kubernetes platform services, and use AI tooling throughout engineering workflows.
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for the identity platform, including authentication flows, federation, and fine-grained authorization.
- Lead the design and delivery of a unified identity experience across Ripple's product portfolio.
- Build and operate Kubernetes platform services focused on reliability, observability, and secure secret management.
- Partner with security, compliance, and product teams to translate regulatory requirements into platform capabilities.
- Write technical proposals and contribute to architecture discussions across the engineering organization.
- Mentor engineers through code review, design feedback, and collaboration.
Requirements
- Backend engineering experience in Golang or Java with production applications in Kubernetes environments.
- Experience designing or contributing to identity systems, ideally in multi-tenant or federated contexts.
- Hands-on use of AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools in daily engineering work.
- Experience collaborating across teams and writing design documents that build alignment.
- Familiarity with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML in production.
- Experience with policy-as-code authorization approaches such as attribute-based or relationship-based access control.
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- In-office collaboration flexibility with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days per month to attend
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting with the Leadership Team
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours
- Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
- Benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and stocked kitchens