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LeadFull-timePythonJavaRustC#SpringAWSKubernetesGoAPI
Salary Range
$153,000 - $207,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for Staff Engineers to join Ripple's Identity and Trust Platform team. This role focuses on building a foundational system to solve identity problems across all products and acquisitions, establishing a single system of record for customers, users, and their identities.
Key Responsibilities
- →Build the Foundation for 'One Ripple': Establish the Identity Platform as the single system of record, decoupling operational identity from legacy systems to enable a unified experience across all Ripple products.
- →Drive Strategic Decoupling: Own the critical migration of core identity logic out of legacy systems, eliminating years of technical debt.
- →Define the Future of Trust: Design and build the shared entitlements layer and unified compliance context to ensure consistent, secure product access.
- →Scale and Mentor: Serve as a technical anchor, setting architectural direction and mentoring engineers.
Requirements
- ✓8+ years experience in Software Engineering, with a significant focus on backend systems.
- ✓Deep, hands-on backend engineering experience building and operating modern, cloud-native, and highly-available distributed systems at scale.
- ✓Proven track record designing and delivering foundational, large-scale systems in complex, regulated environments.
- ✓Expert-level skills in API design and integration (e.g., REST and/or gRPC).
- ✓Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS).
- ✓Strong technical leadership skills: proven ability to set architectural direction and mentor high-performing engineers.
