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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer, RippleX (Platform) - **Company:** RIPPLE X LLC - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $172,000.0 - $215,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Build Automation, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Linux, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Github, Python (Programming Language), Ansible, Blockchain, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Istio, Delivery Pipeline, Grafana, Concurrency, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Linkerd (Service Mesh), Terraform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Docker - **Published:** August 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/9e93aa38-232e-4a28-8066-8b48f0842537 ## About the Role * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field-or equivalent practical experience. * 4+ years of professional experience, including 2+ years operating cloud-native infrastructure at scale (AWS/Google Cloud Platform preferred). * Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or Java, with a deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and concurrency. * Proven experience with Kubernetes (EKS or similar), container runtimes (Docker/OCI), and service meshes (Istio, Linkerd, etc.). * Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines and deploying infrastructure using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or similar. * Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Helm, Ansible) and related automation practices. * Familiarity with distributed systems monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent tools. * Strong leadership and collaboration skills-able to align technical execution across teams while mentoring and developing talent. * Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on driving outcomes in complex and evolving environments. ## Description As a Senior Software Engineer on the RippleX Platform Engineering team, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of XRPL infrastructure. The Platform team operates at the intersection of software engineering, infrastructure, and operations-managing critical services, public test environments, and internal developer tooling. With strong foundations in DevOps and GitOps, the team is focused on delivering fully automated, highly available, and cost-efficient systems that enable developer velocity and protect the health of the XRPL ecosystem. In this role, you'll drive the design and development of platform components and infrastructure services that support distributed, high-throughput systems. You'll help evolve core systems through automation, monitoring, and incident response, while influencing technical direction and mentoring other engineers. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Design and implement scalable and resilient infrastructure supporting production-grade XRPL services and public blockchain networks. * Build automation for infrastructure lifecycle, CI/CD workflows, and deployment pipelines using tools like Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions. * Develop systems and services that support observability, secret management, disaster recovery, and regional failover. * Improve platform reliability through proactive instrumentation, alerting, and incident response in collaboration with observability and security teams. * Contribute to and maintain internal tooling, self-service workflows, and platform capabilities that support developer efficiency and service delivery. * Evaluate new tools to improve infrastructure scalability and reduce manual overhead., * 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! ## Related Videos - [The Developer Handbook: How to Build on the Blockchain](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/223-the-developer-handbook-how-to-build-on-the-blockchain) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [Rate-limiting using eBPF and Istio: How to protect your SaaS customers from themselves](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100220-rate-limiting-using-ebpf-and-istio-how-to-protect-your-saas-customers-from-themselves) - [Inside Bitpanda's Tech Stack: Scaling a European Fintech Leader - Markus Dorner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1979-inside-bitpanda-s-tech-stack-scaling-a-european-fintech-leader-markus-dorner) - [Bringing AI Model Testing and Prompt Management to Your Codebase with GitHub Models](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1536-bringing-ai-model-testing-and-prompt-management-to-your-codebase-with-github-models) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [The Biggest German Tech Companies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/424-the-biggest-german-tech-companies) - [What’s the Difference between a Junior, Mid, and Senior Developer?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/238-what-s-the-difference-between-a-junior-mid-and-senior-developer)