Senior Platform Engineer - London, United Kingdom - Ripple

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    At Ripple, we're building a world where value moves like information does today. It's big, it's bold, and we're already doing it.

    Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world.

    And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.


    If you're ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.


    As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a critical role helping to advance Ripple's production infrastructure and release pipelines.

    Infrastructure Engineers at Ripple are a hybrid of systems and software engineers who support the design and lifecycle of our hosted products.

    You will work closely with product engineers to support their infrastructure needs, ideally in a self-service environment.


    WHAT YOU'LL DO:
    Build and provide platform features for compute, authentication, service discovery and calls, observability and redundancy

    Deploy and maintain Ripple's multi-region, multi-provider service platforms (with an emphasis on security and resiliency)

    Develop tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency

    Create and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, leveraging data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction

    Propose scaleable, maintainable and cost effective solutions

    Participate in the leadership of DevOps and GitOps principles within the organization


    WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
    Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline

    Thinks about engineering excellence in tandem with the developer experience

    5+ years of relevant work experience with solid development background with Go, Python, or Java

    Experience developing APIs and SDKs

    Experience working with cloud infrastructures, particularly AWS

    Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker running on Kubernetes, Rancher, or Mesos

    Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools

    Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)

    Experience with real-time telemetry and tracing tools like Prometheus

    Strong team player with a customer service orientation and ability to forge relationships at all levels of the company and across diverse cultures

    Have excellent communication skills – written, verbal and interpersonal


    WHO WE ARE:
    Do Your Best Work

    The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders

    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.


    Ripple is Flexible First:

    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.

    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

    Mobile phone stipend

    Take Care of Yourself

    Twice a quarter R&R days so you can rest and recharge

    Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming

    Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it

    Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.

    Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events

    Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.

    Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.

    We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.