Golang Job: Infrastructure Platform Engineer Intern (Summer 20

Ripple is the world's only enterprise blockchain solution for global payments. Today the world sends more than $155 trillion across borders. Yet, the underlying infrastructure is dated and flawed. Ripple connects banks, payment providers, corporates and digital asset exchanges via RippleNet to provide one frictionless experience to send money globally.

THE ROLE:

As an Infrastructure Platform Engineer, you will play a critical role in helping to advance Ripple's production infrastructure and release pipelines. Platform Engineers at Ripple are a hybrid of systems and software engineers who support the design and lifecycle of our hosted products. We are responsible for providing global and highly available infrastructure that enables Ripple to be a global leader in cross-border payments.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Work with your mentor, and overall Infrastructure Platform team to build tools, drive automation, streamline observability backends and instrumentation for reducing operational friction and increasing engineering efficiency.
• Architect, deploy, and maintain Ripple's multi-region, multi-provider service platforms (with an emphasis on security and resiliency)
• Create solutions for unique technical challenges faced by Ripple involving PKI, secret management, geographic failover, data replication, availability, and platform resiliency
• Participate in the leadership of DevOps-first principles within the organization
• Research promising new tools and technologies, push the team to experiment and evolve

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

• Experience in at least one programming language like Python, Java or Golang
• Excellent debugging, problem solving, and analytical skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management.
• Foundational knowledge of DevOps tools and processes like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Git, CI/CD, Infrastructure or Cloud (hands on experience is a plus).
• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate or PHd program, preferably in a computer science or related field.
• Coursework / previous intern experience with Observability tools such as Grafana, Kibana, DataDog or similar.

WHO WE ARE:

Ripple is doing for value what the internet did for information: enabling its instant and seamless flow around the world. We call this the Internet of Value (IoV). Using blockchain and cryptocurrency technology, Ripple is dedicated to creating powerful gains in financial efficiency, equity and inclusion. In addition, Ripple is developing and enabling the future use cases that will catalyze the new digital economy for governments, businesses and consumers.

Ripple has offices in Bangalore, Dubai, Dublin, London, Miami, Mumbai, New York, Reykjavík, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Toronto, and Washington, D.C.

WHAT WE OFFER – The resources and support to be your best at work and beyond:

Do Your Best Work

• The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
• A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact. A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
• Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
• Ripple is Flexible First: you have the option to work remotely, from our offices, or a combination of the two within the 11 countries we are located around the world.
• Weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
• We come together for moments that matter which include team off-sites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!

Take Control of Your Finances

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
• Bonus Flexibility Program: Participants in the Corporate Bonus Plan have the option to elect to receive their annual bonus in cash, equity or XRP, or a combination.
• 100% paid medical and dental and 95% paid vision insurance for employees starting on your first day
• 401k (with match)
• Commuter benefits
• Employee giving match
• Mobile phone stipend

Take Care of Yourself

• Twice a quarter R&R days so you can rest and recharge
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
• Flexible vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
• Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events

Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.