Hiring: 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: •8+ years building production backend systems, with deep expertise in Java (or comparable JVM languages, Go, Rust) Qualifications: •A track record of owning architecture for complex distributed systems at scale, not just building within an existing design, but defining the design others build against •Demonstrated ability to drive technical direction across teams and influence engineering decisions beyond your immediate scope •Strong resilience and distributed-systems design instincts: failover, graceful degradation, idempotency, high-throughput real-time decisioning •Excellent API design judgment (REST/gRPC) and the ability to establish patterns others adopt •Proven skill navigating ambiguity in a regulated environment, turning regulator findings, audit obligations, and partner asks into shippable, durable engineering plans •Solid functional working knowledge of Kubernetes, observability tooling (Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar), and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) •A history of mentoring engineers and lifting the technical bar of a team •Your architecture decides whether real payments clear, in real time, for real customers. •You're not owning a service, you're shaping the control plane every Ripple product depends on. 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!