Ripple is building financial infrastructure solutions for global institutions.
This Senior Cloud Architect role leads infrastructure strategy and design for the Treasury Reconciliation platform, which handles billions of daily transactions.
You will own architecture direction, mentor senior engineers, and establish infrastructure standards while remaining hands‐on with critical technical work.
What You'll Do
Set and own infrastructure architecture direction, driving scalability and performance decisions across the platform
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior infrastructure engineers through design reviews, problem-solving, and expertise development
Establish infrastructure standards, patterns, and benchmarks for quality, performance, and system maintainability
Prototype and build critical-path components while ensuring routine implementation work is owned by the team
Make and be accountable for infrastructure tradeoff decisions with long‐term cost, scalability, or maintainability implications
What You Need
BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience




5+ years of hands‐on experience designing and owning large‐scale distributed infrastructure with demonstrated architecture ownership
3+ years serving as a technical lead and mentoring engineers
Deep expertise with AWS and Kubernetes (minimum 3+ years with each)
Expertise in Linux and Windows server environments, building and maintaining cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure
Proficiency with Terraform, ArgoCD, Bash, and Python
Experience with data infrastructure and processing technologies such as Spark and MSSQL
Track record building systems that power high‐volume transactional workloads
Nice to Have
Experience in the finance space
Cybersecurity experience
Agile practices for reliable shipping
Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
health and mental healthcare coverage
retirement, family forming, and family support benefits
mobile phone stipend
R&R; days
generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual programming
generous vacation policy
industry-leading parental leave and family planning advantages
catered lunches and onsite events
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