Director of Infrastructure
Posted on 7/19/2023
INACTIVE
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