Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering

As a Staff Software Engineer on Ripple's Data Engineering team, you will own the architecture of the Caspian centralized lakehouse platform, remain hands-on in production engineering, establish technical and quality standards, and mentor senior engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design of ingestion, transformation, governance, and data quality platform pillars.
  • Define Databricks pipeline patterns and reference architectures.
  • Ship production data flows, reference implementations, and prototypes.
  • Establish data quality and governance standards, including contracts, lineage, and validation frameworks.
  • Lead complex initiatives spanning multiple quarters and teams.
  • Direct AI applications across data engineering, including agentic systems and automated transformation generation.
  • Raise code quality and engineering rigor through implementation and code review.
  • Mentor senior engineers into greater ownership.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of data engineering experience architecting and operating data platforms at scale.
  • Deep mastery of Databricks, Delta Live Tables, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and Spark.
  • Experience owning ingestion, transformation, governance, and data quality for production platforms.
  • Expert SQL and Python skills for data modeling, transformation, and platform tooling.
  • Strong AWS experience operating data systems at scale.
  • History of setting technical standards and raising engineering quality.
  • Experience applying AI tooling, agentic systems, LLMs, or conversational analytics to data engineering.
  • Ability to influence engineers and leadership through technical credibility.

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 onsite and virtual programming
  • Generous vacation policy
  • Parental leave and family planning benefits
  • Catered lunches and fully stocked kitchens

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