Ripple is growing rapidly and we are looking for a results-oriented and passionate Staff Software Engineer to help create the next generation of data infrastructure built for scale, resilience and reliability. This is a high impact role. You will build real-time data pipelines and a data lake for valuable internal tools used by leadership, compliance, finance, and product teams to make strategic business decisions. You will be responsible for our Data API that powers public-facing applications used globally to follow the open-source ledger.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
- Build real time data pipelines and tools to keep pace with the growth of our data and its consumers
- Power our externally-facing data APIs and applications built on top of them
- Build foundational systems and services that allow users to focus on business and application logic via higher level programming models
- Design and implement systems for scalability, availability and graceful degradation
- Build frameworks for measuring and monitoring data quality and integrity
- Identify and analyze requirements and use cases from multiple internal teams (including Finance, Compliance, Analytics, Data Science, and Engineering); work with other technical leads to design solutions for the requirements
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
- Deep experience with distributed systems, distributed data stores, data pipelines, and other tools in cloud services environments (e.g. GCP, AWS)
- 8+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Experience with distributed compute engines like BigTable, BigQuery, Dataflow, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, HBase
- Extensive experience with real time stream processing frameworks such as Beam, Kafka, Storm, Flink, Spark Streaming
- Expert knowledge of data modeling for large scale distributed data platforms
- Experience with data security, management and governance
- Experience with RESTful APIs and server-side APIs integration
- Proficient in SQL, Python, Java, Go
- Familiarity with Unix-like operating systems
- Familiarity with distributed ledger technology concepts and financial transaction/trading data
- Strong understanding of building operational excellence for data infrastructure
- You have a passion working with great peers and motivating teams to reach their potential
- You are a strong partner to other engineering and non-engineering teams and can drive cross-functional projects forward
- You have experience building internal infrastructure that is shared across teams
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience in supporting Node.js in production is a plus
- Familiarity with Kubernetes
- Crypto domain experience or interes
Note. Job locations: Canada, Toronto, Ontario. Visa sponsorship is not available.
