Staff Software Engineer, DevOps - New York, United States - Ripple

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    Developer Operations (DevOps) at Ripple is responsible for communication, collaboration and integration between the Development and Operations teams so infrastructures, tools and processes are streamlined and effective for faster and automated delivery of products.

    The Staff Software Engineer, DevOps will contribute in discovery, design and implementation of solutions to improve infrastructure and release pipelines. These solutions will include developer infrastructure, production infrastructure layout and maintenance, capacity and load testing, CI/CD infrastructure and release process automation. You will push the boundaries with new tools and technologies and use a data-driven approach for achieving desired results. Candidates should enjoy working openly and collaboratively with a team with varied strengths and possess an ability to encourage and drive engineering standard processes.

    WHAT YOU'LL DO:

  • Develop, deploy, and maintain Ripple's multi-region, multi-provider service platforms
  • Supply design and development of tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency
  • Lead discovery of next generation solutions and work with wider engineering teams on implementation, adoption and continuous improvements
  • Create and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, using data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
  • Collaborate with product engineering to ensure code is production-ready
  • Participate in the adoption of DevOps-first principles within the organization

    WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

  • 6+ years of hands-on experience as DevOps or related roles
  • Strong experience in either Python, Go, or Java
  • Experience working with large scale, multi-region service platforms
  • Expertise in Kubernetes and experience working with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS
  • Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker, Rkt, or OCI running on Kubernetes, Rancher, or Mesos
  • Experience building deployment pipelines using common CI/CD tools
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc)
  • Security awareness, with an emphasis on designing for security standard methodologies
  • Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software design, scalability and security
  • A positive attitude and a passion for sharing knowledge

    Ripple focuses on Internet, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Payments, and Banking. Their company has offices in New York City, San Francisco, Dubai, Singapore, and Washington DC. They have a large team that's between employees. To date, Ripple has raised $290.7M of funding; their latest round was closed on December 2019.
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