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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Director of Engineering, Infrastructure - **Company:** Ripple - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $272,000.0 - $340,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Computing Platforms, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Hardware Security Module, Key Management, Octopus Deploy, Reliability Engineering, Blockchain, Data Logging, Google Cloud, Istio, Multi-Cloud, Build Management, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Ripple (payment Protocol), Terraform - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/6594c19c-7208-44d1-9dce-d6649af3ddf3 ## About the Role * 12+ years of hands-on software and infrastructure engineering experience, including 5+ years leading teams and managing managers * Deep, production-grade experience with Kubernetes at scale - multi-cluster and multi-tenant operations, upgrade strategy, workload isolation, autoscaling, and the failure modes you only learn about the hard way * Experience operating across more than one major cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure) and a clear point of view on where multi-cloud pays for itself and where it doesn't * Strong background in infrastructure-as-code and declarative operations (Terraform, Helm, GitOps tooling such as Argo CD or Flux) * Track record building highly available, secure distributed systems and the observability to run them (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting that people actually trust) * Experience with service networking and service mesh technologies, and with securing traffic and identity across cloud boundaries * Demonstrated ability to improve developer experience measurably - build and deploy times, environment provisioning, self-service platform capabilities * Experience partnering with security and regulatory oversight functions in a regulated environment; comfort with least-privilege, key management, and audit requirements * Experience with Agile development, with a focus on robust design, scalability, and security * Solid leadership and communication skills, with the judgment to know when to decide, when to delegate, and when to dig in yourself * Eagerness to work openly and collaboratively with a diverse team, with a positive attitude and a passion for sharing knowledge * BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or similar Nice to have: experience in FinTech, payments, or crypto infrastructure; familiarity with blockchain node operations; exposure to hardware security modules or high-assurance key management systems. ## Description We're looking for a hands-on engineering leader to develop and guide the teams responsible for Ripple's cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platform, and developer experience. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Lead the technical and organizational strategy managing multi-cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platform at Ripple, balancing reliability, security, cost, and developer velocity y * Lead multiple teams and managers across compute platform, cloud infrastructure, developer experience, and reliability engineering * Define and deliver the multi-year infrastructure roadmap, including cluster architecture, workload orchestration, service networking, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD * Set the standard for operational excellence - SLOs, incident response, on-call health, blameless postmortems, and dynamic rollout practices - and hold the organization to it * Drive multi-cloud strategy and execution: workload placement, portability, avoiding accidental lock-in, disaster recovery, and multi-region resilience * Partner with Security and Compliance to build infrastructure that satisfies SOC 2, ISO 27001, and jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirements without slowing engineering down * Own cloud spend for your organization, with clear accountability for efficiency and unit economics as the platform scales * Provide hands-on technical leadership - architecture reviews, design docs, incident escalations, and the occasional pull request * Mentor and grow the professional and technical development of your team, both managers and individual contributors * Establish team objectives and quarterly plans in alignment with business and organizational goals * Translate infrastructure investments into terms that resonate with engineers, product leaders, and executives alike * Scale the organization by attracting, hiring, and developing exceptional leaders and engineers at all levels, * 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) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [Infrastructure as Code: The Developer's Secret Weapon](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1221-infrastructure-as-code-the-developer-s-secret-weapon) - [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) - [Building a Cloud Platform Where Everything is Just Another Kubernetes Resource](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100137-building-a-cloud-platform-where-everything-is-just-another-kubernetes-resource) - [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) ## Related Articles - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [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) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [The Biggest German Tech Companies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/424-the-biggest-german-tech-companies) - [From Hype to Code: Real Blockchain Use Cases for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/620-from-hype-to-code-real-blockchain-use-cases-for-developers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers)