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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer - **Company:** Ripple - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $172,000.0 - $215,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Code Generation, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Security, Data Systems, Database Queries, Software Design Documents, Apache Hive, Python (Programming Language), Blockchain, Large Language Models, Apache Spark, Gitlab, Data Lakes, Pyspark, Data Analytics, Ripple (payment Protocol), Terraform, Databricks - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-data-engineering-ripple-7959542 ## About the Role * 5-8 years of hands-on data engineering experience building and maintaining production pipelines and data models. * Deep proficiency with Databricks or similar platforms - Delta Live Tables, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and PySpark or Spark SQL as primary tools. * Strong SQL skills: complex transformations, incremental materialization, schema evolution, and data quality validation. * Solid AWS experience relevant to building and operating data systems at scale. * Proficiency in Python for data engineering - ingestion, transformation, testing, and utility tooling. * Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitLab and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform. * Exposure to AI tooling in a data context - whether building agents, using LLMs for code generation, or enabling self-serve analytics workflows. * The ability to take ambiguous requirements, define the right data model and pipeline design, and deliver with minimal oversight. Nice to have * Familiarity with financial, payments, or blockchain data. * Experience with Fivetran or similar ingestion tools and their operational patterns. ## Description As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Engineering team, you are a core builder of the Caspian Data Platform - Ripple's centralized lakehouse that powers analytics, financial reporting, product intelligence, and data-driven operations across every business unit. You own the design and delivery of production-grade pipelines end to end. You raise the engineering bar for the team through code reviews, technical design, and mentorship. You operate with high autonomy on complex, cross-functional data initiatives and bring sound judgment to tradeoffs around performance, cost, reliability, and maintainability. What you'll do * Design, build, and operate production ETL pipelines on Databricks using Delta Live Tables and Spark, applying medallion architecture patterns across Finance, Payments, Product, and GTM domains. * Own data modeling in different layers - defining governed, reusable table structures that serve as reliable sources of truth for business metrics and downstream consumption. * Drive technical design for projects spanning multiple teams, writing clear design documents that articulate architecture, tradeoffs, and rollout plans. * Build pipeline observability into your work - failure detection, alerting, retry logic, and the operational hygiene that keeps oncall burden low. * Integrate AI tooling into data workflows: agentic systems for pipeline triage, automated code generation for transformations, and natural language interfaces for data access. * Mentor engineers, reviewing their code and designs and helping them grow into more complex ownership. * Contribute to platform infrastructure through Terraform, and work with Unity Catalog to establish data contracts, access controls, and lineage., * 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 - [PySpark - Combining Machine Learning & Big Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/44-pyspark-combining-machine-learning-big-data) - [The Developer Handbook: How to Build on the Blockchain](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/223-the-developer-handbook-how-to-build-on-the-blockchain) - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Modern DevOps for IoT Devices and More](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1805-wearedevelopers-live-modern-devops-for-iot-devices-and-more) - [Infrastructure as Code: The Developer's Secret Weapon](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1221-infrastructure-as-code-the-developer-s-secret-weapon) - [Empowering Retail Through Applied Machine Learning](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/976-empowering-retail-through-applied-machine-learning) - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies in Europe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/162-highest-paying-tech-companies-in-europe)