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