Director of Infrastructure
Posted on 7/19/2023
INACTIVE
Ripple

1,001-5,000 employees

Enterprise blockchain
Company Overview
Ripple's mission is to provide one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain technology.
Financial Services
Crypto & Web3

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$319.4M

Founded

2012

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

5%

1 year growth

20%

2 year growth

67%
Locations
San Francisco, CA, USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Kubernetes
Management
AWS
Google Cloud Platform
CategoriesNew
DevOps & Infrastructure
Requirements
  • 15 years of experience in a software engineering environment, 10+ years of engineering management experience in building and scaling a global infrastructure team operating high-scale cloud infrastructure
  • Solid technical background and large-scale practical experience with modering infrastructure platform container frameworks (Kubernetes), production database engine familiarity, and metrics tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Log ingest)
  • Proven track record of executing customer-facing infrastructure initiatives across multiple diverse product teams. Provide resource management to major initiatives by forecasting resource demands with functional areas, coordinating the staffing of infrastructure programs/projects with managers, and providing work direction and coaching
  • Experience building and maintaining a 3-tier infrastructure support model, including development, site reliability, and front-line incident management functions in a chain of continuous improvement
  • The ability to synthesize all inputs from stakeholder engineering teams and develop a crisp long-term infrastructure roadmap, with the ability to adjust and realign at the speed of the business
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, equivalent training, or work experience
Responsibilities
  • Own all aspects of Ripple's cloud infrastructure and platform, including roadmap and architecture for the four core infrastructure teams; CloudOps SRE, Database Engineering, and Platform Engineering
  • Set the Infrastructure Org's long-term technical direction and strategy and heavily contribute to the broader Engineering organization process and top-level company initiatives
  • Champion reliability, performance, and scale of Ripple's core infrastructure services. (AWS, GCP) With a keen focus on metrics and data-driven decision-making
  • Support, grow, and mentor Engineering Managers and individual contributors in your org
  • Co-own OpEx planning and execution with the VP of infrastructure, heavily focused on building financial models in partnership with FP&A
  • Responsible for budgets within his/her/their department and resource planning to meet project objectives
  • Help further develop architectural patterns of extensive geo-distributed SaaS infrastructure and applications