Hiring: Senior Staff Software Engineer, Financial Crimes Company: Ripple Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:04:58 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : API Design, AWS, Grafana, Java, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, R, REST, Rust, Systems Design, gRPC About the job Experience: •12+ years building production backend systems, with deep expertise in Java (or comparable JVM languages, Go, Rust) Required Skills: •As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on this team, you will set the multi-year technical direction for the compliance control plane and drive its adoption beyond your own team. •Own the architecture of the vendor-agnostic, resilient, provable system that lets Ripple move value without moving financial crime, and you will shape how compliance engineering works across the company. •This is a role for someone who defines which problems the organization solves, not only how they get solved: you will set the technical strategy other teams build against, establish the patterns that become organizational standards, and serve as the senior-most engineering voice on how regulatory obligations become durable infrastructure. Qualifications: •A track record of owning architecture for complex distributed systems at scale across multiple teams or organizations, defining the designs that others build against and that outlast your involvement •Demonstrated ability to set technical direction at the organizational level and drive adoption of standards and patterns across team boundaries without formal authority •Strong resilience and distributed-systems design instincts: failover, graceful degradation, idempotency, high-throughput real-time decisioning, and designing systems that survive the failure of dependencies you do not control •Excellent API design judgment (REST/gRPC) and a history of establishing patterns that become organizational defaults •Proven skill navigating ambiguity in a regulated environment, turning regulator findings, audit obligations, and partner asks into shippable, durable engineering plans, and defending those decisions to auditors and examiners •Solid functional working knowledge of Kubernetes, observability tooling (Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar), and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) •A track record of developing senior and staff engineers and measurably lifting the technical bar of an organization •Your architecture decides whether real payments clear, in real time, for real customers. •You are not owning a service or even a system, you are shaping the compliance control plane that every Ripple product depends on and the standards that partner teams build to. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Competitive benefits and rewards package Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!