Manager, Software Engineering

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.</span></p></div><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>The Work</strong></span></p> <p>Manage a team maintaining infrastructure, Internal Development Platform, and Ripple product accessibility. The role will span overseeing the development and reliability of key infrastructural components related to compute, build, integration, deployment, secure access among others. You are someone who is acutely focused on site reliability but also has a close pulse on the internal engineering experience, and makes good tradeoffs on what to build and why. You understand how to build Internal Developer Platforms and ways to make continual progress and delivery without getting bogged down by complexity. You have good mechanisms to assess reliability, availability, latency and cost and ensure the right instrumentation is in place to enable these to be reviewed and improved. You are a force multiplier for developers and application owners in the organization.</p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>What you’ll do</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Lead and inspire a team of Infrastructure engineers to continuously deliver availability and reliability of Ripple products</li> <li>Have good instincts for Platform Engineering and developing Internal Developer Platforms</li> <li>Building and operating production software at internet scale</li> <li>Balancing bias to action with the ability to make well-informed bets</li> <li>Collaborating closely with our key partners as well as engaging directly with engineering customers to understand their needs and improve their experience</li> <li>Owning, crafting, and maintaining processes and tooling for infrastructure organization, while incorporating your own tooling and processes.</li> <li>Support operations for infrastructure features and services</li> <li>Build in observability for internal infrastructure services as well as provide related observability frameworks for applications</li> <li>Minimize our mean time to resolve incidents by reacting to monitoring alerts, problems reported by employees or customers in a timely manner</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>What you'll bring:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Strong familiarity with AWS tools and services</li> <li>10+ years of total experience with 5+ years of management experience in building and leading diverse software infrastructure engineering teams.</li> <li>Experience building &amp; operating highly reliable distributed systems in a cloud environment</li> <li>Customer-focused curiosity, passion for technology, pragmatic thinking, ability to jump into an ambiguous area, and break down complex problems</li> <li>Demonstrated experience in improving the reliability and operational automation of complex, multi-tier systems</li> <li>A strong product mindset along with experience in delivering large complex projects collaborating with a variety of cross-functional stakeholders that are technology, operations or business focused.</li> <li>Experience with monitoring systems and incident management</li> <li>Experience operating software as a service</li> <li>Experience working in the FinTech a plus</li> <li>Experience participating in incident response</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description">For positions that will be based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is below. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant’s experience and qualifications for the position. This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions.&nbsp;</div><div class="title">CA Annual Base Salary Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$208,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$260,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><hr> <p><strong>WHO WE ARE:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do Your Best Work</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact.&nbsp; A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take Control of Your Finances</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Employee giving match</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mobile phone stipend</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take Care of Yourself</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">R&amp;R days so you can rest and recharge</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite &amp; virtual programming</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em data-stringify-type="italic">Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.&nbsp;</em></span></p> <hr> <div><em>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.</em></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><em>Please find our <a href="https://ripple.com/legal/eu-privacy-notice/" target="_blank">UK/EU Applicant Privacy Notice </a>and our <a href="https://ripple.com/legal/ca-applicant-privacy-notice/" target="_blank">California Applicant Privacy Notice</a> for reference.</em></div> <div><hr></div></div>