Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Ripple Ripple · Fintech · Sydney, Australia · Engineering

Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure role at Ripple, focusing on building and scaling the infrastructure for an enterprise reconciliation application within the fintech domain. Requires extensive experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure), IaC (Terraform/Ansible), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and data processing (Spark/MSSQL). The role involves technical leadership, mentoring, and driving engineering excellence.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build, scale and maintain infrastructure of the enterprise reconciliation application that brings the world class user experience to finance professionals
  2. Work with wider technical teams on the design, deployment and continuous improvement of infrastructure of our products
  3. Be a technical domain leader, provide technical guidance to your team and own the delivery of features.
  4. Participate in raising our standard of engineering excellence by implementing standard methodologies for architecture, coding, testing, and deployment

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale distributed infrastructure
  • 4+ years serving as a technical lead and mentoring engineers
  • Deep expertise in Linux and Windows server environments
  • strong experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible
  • scripting languages including Bash, Python, and PowerShell
  • Experience with data infrastructure and processing technologies such as Spark and MSSQL
  • Experience building the systems that power high-volume transactional workloads
  • Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
  • A track record of building infrastructure that scales, stays available, and remains secure
  • Agile practices

Nice to have

  • Cybersecurity experience is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale distributed infrastructure
  • 4+ years serving as a technical lead and mentoring engineers
  • Deep expertise in Linux and Windows server environments
  • strong experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible
  • scripting languages including Bash, Python, and PowerShell
  • Experience with data infrastructure and processing technologies such as Spark and MSSQL
  • Experience building the systems that power high-volume transactional workloads
  • Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
  • A track record of building infrastructure that scales, stays available, and remains secure