Staff Cloud Architect

Are you interested in a role where you will be pioneering and breaking new ground in large-scale financial data processing? Then this role might be for you. Join the Ripple Treasury Reconciliation team where you’ll be solving complex problems and having fun while passionately discussing (and arguing) with your team members!

• →Set and own infrastructure architecture direction. Drive architecture, scalability, and performance decisions across the platform. 
• →Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior infrastructure engineers — reviewing designs, unblocking hard problems, and playing a key role in deepening the team's expertise.
• →Establish infrastructure standards and patterns for the team to create a high benchline for quality, performance and maintenance of the system.
• →Stay hands-on: prototype, build critical-path components, and get into the code where it matters — while routine implementation and day-to-day operational work is owned by the senior engineers.
• →Make and be accountable for infrastructure tradeoff decisions with long-term cost, scalability, or maintainability implications.

• 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and owning large-scale distributed infrastructure, including a track record of owning architecture decisions yourself, with 4+ years serving as a technical lead and mentoring engineers.
• Deep expertise with AWS & Kubernetes. Minimum 5+ years experience with each.
• Expertise in Linux and Windows server environments, with strong experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Argocd, and 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, ideally in finance space. Cybersecurity experience is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• A track record of building infrastructure that scales, stays available, and remains secure, using Agile practices to ship reliably.
• You work openly and collaboratively with diverse teams, and you're energized by driving engineering excellence through better standards, processes, and shared knowledge.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

This role is architecture-led, not implementation-led — we're looking for someone who has owned and been accountable for infrastructure design decisions, not someone whose primary experience is executing infrastructure designed by others. This is also a technical leadership role, not a people-management position. 

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.
• 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. 
• Bi-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

• 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.