Staff Cloud Architect

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. It’s big, it’s bold, and we’re already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.</span></p></div><p>Are you interested in pioneering and breaking new ground in large-scale financial data processing? Then this role might be for you. Join the Ripple Treasury Reconciliation team where you’ll be solving complex problems and having fun while passionately discussing (and arguing) with your team members!</p> <h1>About the Reconciliation team</h1> <p>Ripple Treasury Reconciliation platform sits at the heart of how the world's largest financial institutions and enterprises close their books and bring more control to their financial processes. Our vision is to create a completely new user experience with financial tools that have no equals on the market. With users first in mind and driven by technology.</p> <p>As part of Ripple, we're backed by the scale and ambition of a company reshaping global finance, giving our team the resources to modernize the mission-critical product while still moving with the speed and ownership of a smaller engineering group. If you want your code to directly touch how billions of transactions get reconciled every day, this is that kind of role.&nbsp;</p> <h1>What we are looking for</h1> <p>We are looking for a Staff Infrastructure Architect to own the infrastructure of our growing Reconciliation platform.<strong> </strong>You'll set the direction, architecture and design for our platform, focusing on performance, stability, security and how to integrate newer technologies. You will also be setting the technical direction and standards for our team while working alongside senior infrastructure engineers who own day-to-day execution and operational work.</p> <p>This is a hands-on architecture role, not a pure strategy or management position. You'll write core foundational code and build reference implementations, but the bulk of routine implementation work belongs to the team. Your value is in judgment: knowing where to invest based on business direction, designing for scalability and lower long-term maintenance burden, and raising the technical ceiling of the team.</p> <p><strong>What you'll do:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Set and own infrastructure architecture direction. </strong>Drive architecture, scalability, and performance decisions across the platform.&nbsp;</li> <li><strong>Provide technical leadership and mentorship</strong> to senior infrastructure engineers by reviewing designs, unblocking hard problems, and playing a key role in deepening the team's expertise.</li> <li><strong>Establish infrastructure standards and patterns</strong> for the team to create a high benchline for quality, performance and maintenance of the system.</li> <li><strong>Stay hands-on</strong>: prototype, build critical-path components, and get into the code where it matters while routine implementation and day-to-day operational work is owned by the senior engineers.</li> <li><strong>Make and be accountable for infrastructure tradeoff decisions</strong> with long-term cost, scalability, or maintainability implications.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you'll bring:</strong></p> <ul> <li>BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.</li> <li>8+ years of hands-on experience designing and owning large-scale distributed infrastructure, including a track record of owning architecture de

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