Ripple
Financial Technology
StaffSoftwareEngineer
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“Staff Software Engineer at Ripple. Skills: Secure enclave infrastructure, Trusted execution environments, Cloud infrastructure, Applied cryptography. Design, build, and operate secure enclave infrastructure. Develop platform abstractions”
What You'll Achieve.
Raise the security bar for custody infrastructure; Maintain reliability, operability, and developer velocity
Industry & Context.
Reason clearly about trust boundaries, threat models, failure modes, and defense-in-depth controls
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years of experience building production software, infrastructure, or distributed systems, significant experience in security-sensitive and high-reliability environments, hands-on programming experience in systems or backend languages such as Rust, Go, C, C++, or Java, ability to build reliable, maintainable services and platform components, Practical experience designing and operating systems that protect highly sensitive data, understanding of applied cryptography concepts, Deep knowledge of Linux, operating system fundamentals, networking, process isolation, and hardened runtime environments, Experience building or operating cloud-native infrastructure, Ability to reason clearly about trust boundaries, threat models, failure modes, and defense-in-depth controls, Experience leading complex technical projects across teams
Nice to Have
Hands-on experience with enclave-based or confidential computing platforms, Experience customizing Linux kernels, building minimal operating environments, hardening OS images, working close to hardware, virtualization, or hypervisor boundaries, Experience with HSMs, MPC, threshold signing, secure key ceremonies, custody infrastructure, wallet systems, payment systems, blockchain infrastructure, or other high-assurance cryptographic platforms
What You'll Do.
and operate secure enclave infrastructure
Develop platform abstractions
Integrate trusted execution technologies
Build secure communication patterns
Partner with engineering teams
Improve operational maturity
Mentor senior engineers
Contribute to security standards
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Engage with different trusted execution environments; Partner with cryptography, security, infrastructure, and product engineering teams; Guide architecture across teams; Experience leading complex technical projects across teams
Process & Methodology
Lead complex technical projects
Full Job Description
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. If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value. THE WORK We are seeking a new Staff Software Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team of our Custody department. In this role, you will own the design and development of secure enclave-based platforms used to isolate and protect our most critical cryptographic operations. You will engage with different trusted execution environments (TEEs) and you will define how Ripple Custody deploys highly sensitive components in strongly isolated environments while maintaining reliability, operability, and developer velocity. You will work where distributed systems, applied cryptography, cloud infrastructure, and security engineering converge. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can design deep platform primitives, guide architecture across teams, and raise the security bar for custody infrastructure. WHAT YOU'LL DO Design, build, and operate secure enclave infrastructure for cryptographic workloads, including signing, key handling, authorization, and policy enforcement. Develop platform abstractions that make enclave-based deployment reliable, observable, and usable by internal engineering teams. Evaluate and integrate trusted execution technologies across cloud providers, including AWS Nitro Enclaves, GCP confidential computing offerings, and IBM HPVS. Build secure communication patterns between enclaves and external services, including attestation
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