Staff DevOps Engineer

Hyper-Accelerating the Internet of Value

We champion the builders of tomorrow by providing the infrastructure, tools, services, programs and support for creation on one of the world’s fastest, most sustainable and consistently reliable public blockchains - XRP Ledger. By supporting an open community of developers, they can advance the solutions and innovation needed to allow businesses, consumers, institutions and governments to fuel the engine of a new digital economy.

RippleX operates on the belief that realizing the Internet of Value hinges on how easily new technology works for more people, and how effectively we can change the way the world operates today.

RippleX is helping more people participate through:

• Practical support and capabilities to develop applications that move digital value faster and more easily
• Empowering a community that’s democratizing the digital economy 
• Blockchain infrastructure that is enabled by RippleX and owned by everyone
• The expertise of a technology company that is known for vision and action

As a DevOps/Build Engineer, you will play a critical role in helping to advance XRP ledger's production infrastructure and release pipelines. DevOps/BuildEngineers at Ripple are a hybrid of systems and software engineers who support the design and lifecycle of the XRP ledger.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Own the availability and security of core CI/CD services such as Github Actions/Travis CI, Artifactory, and other toolings.
• Own the core software’s CMake build system/sequence.
• Work on solutions to automate and improve development and release workflows
• Build and improve tooling around automation and CI/CD
• Develop tools in order to help us build and ship products and services quickly
• Integrate
• Research new tools and technologies, push the team to experiment and evolve
• Extend the build system for new application initiatives when needed

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

Required

• 5+ years of hands-on Software Development experience
• Expert-level knowledge of C++ build systems such as CMake
• Extensive experience with automated build systems such as Travis CI, Github Actions, GitLab, or similar
• Building on/supporting multiple platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows, Cloud, etc..)
• Building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools
• Scripting languages such as Python, Powershell, and Batch.
• Working with cloud infrastructures, particularly AWS and GCP
• Version control software, such as Git, Perforce, and SVN.
• Programming experience in C, C++, or C#
• Self-starter: can work from home, self-manage, and thrive as part of a remote team.

Preferred

• Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, or similar on ephemeral cloud environments
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes as well as modern configuration management tools like Salt/Ansible
• Knowledge of static and dynamic code analysis and coverage tools like Coverity, Bullseye, and VectorCAST.