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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. \nIf you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.\nAt Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. 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.\nRipple Treasury, now a Ripple solution acquired in 2025, marks a significant expansion into the multi-trillion-dollar corporate finance arena. With more than 40 years of experience supporting some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated companies, Ripple Treasury integrates a treasury command center into Ripple’s technology stack-giving corporates the ability to move, manage, and optimize liquidity in real-time, across traditional and digital assets, under one expanded umbrella.\nTHE WORK:\nThis is an engineering-first role with a coaching dimension-not the other way around. You will spend the majority of your time doing hands-on observability and reliability engineering work: building instrumentation, designing alert configurations, authoring Terraform, and troubleshooting production systems. Alongside that, you will coach and consult with stream-aligned product teams, helping them build operational maturity over time.\nYou will join Ripple’s Technical Operations team and work across Azure (80%) and AWS (20%) environments supporting infrastructure that is predominantly Windows-based (80%), handling significant payment volume for enterprise treasury customers. The incident management program you will help build is early-stage-you will be establishing practices, not inheriting a mature playbook.\nWHAT YOU’LL DO:\nObservability Engineering\nDesign and implement monitoring, alerting, and dashboards in New Relic (APM, Infrastructure, Logs, Synthetics) across Azure and AWS; write NRQL queries for troubleshooting, analysis, and reporting.\nDefine and implement SLOs/SLIs and error budgets; coach teams on using them to balance feature velocity with reliability and communicate system health to stakeholders.\nLead alert noise reduction and signal quality engineering-tune thresholds, eliminate false positives, and ensure every alert is actionable.\nOptimize observability costs through log ingestion management, pipeline rules, and New Relic configuration governance.\nPartner with engineering teams to improve observability maturity: structured logging, metrics instrumentation (RED/USE methods), distributed tracing, and effective dashboard patterns.\nInfrastructure & IaC\nDevelop and maintain Terraform infrastructure as code for provisioning and managing monitoring resources, alert configurations, and observability infrastructure-this is a primary engineering responsibility, not an occasional task.\nEstablish and enforce IaC governance standards for observability infrastructure across teams, providing a repeatable, auditable model for how monitoring resources are managed.\nAuthor and troubleshoot Azure DevOps pipelines; support teams with deployment visibility, change tracking, and release hygiene as it relates to production reliability.\nIncident Management\nAdminister and configure Incident.IO: alert routing, notification workflows, Slack and OpsGenie integration, and runbook management-operationalizing what exists today and expanding from there.\nBuild out incident management foundations that are largely yours to establish: PIR/postmortem processes, on-call rotation design, escalation policies, incident severity classification, and response playbooks.\nTrack and report on MTTR, MTTD, and incident frequency; identify trends and drive continuous improvement in partnership with engineering teams.\nRespond to and debrief on production incidents-providing real-time troubleshooting support and facilitating structured post-incident reviews.\nCross-Functional Enablement\nEnable stream-aligned engineering teams to adopt improved observability and incident management practices through workshops, consultation, and hands-on guidance.\nCollaborate with the Subsystems Platform Team to translate common needs into self-service observability and incident management capabilities.\nBuild lasting team competency through documentation, training materials, and knowledge-sharing sessions that outlast any individual engagement.\n\nWHAT YOU'LL BRING: \nCore SRE Experience\n7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering with a strong focus on observability and production operations.\nProven ability to deliver hands-on engineering work while coaching and mentoring teams-comfortable switching between builder and consultant modes.\nExperience working in Agile/Scrum environments and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.\n\n Observability & Incident Management Expertise - Required\nExpert-level hands-on experience with New Relic (APM, Infrastructure, Logs, Synthetics, Alerts) and strong NRQL proficiency for troubleshooting and analysis.\nDeep understanding of structured logging, metrics collection (RED/USE methods), distributed tracing, and designing effective dashboards and alerts.\nExpertise defining and implementing SLOs/SLIs and error budgets for reliability management.\nHands-on experience with incident management platforms (Incident.IO, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, or similar).\nExperience designing incident response workflows, on-call rotations, escalation policies, and facilitating post-incident reviews that drive actionable improvements.\nDemonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex production issues using observability data across distributed systems.\n\n Infrastructure & Tools - Required\nStrong Terraform experience: developing and maintaining IaC for cloud infrastructure and monitoring resources; familiarity with IaC governance patterns.\nProficiency with PowerShell scripting (required given the 80% Windows environment).\nStrong experience with Azure cloud (App Services, Virtual Machines, Azure SQL, networking, monitoring) and working knowledge of AWS.\nExperience with Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipeline authoring and troubleshooting.\nExperience with Octopus Deploy for deployment management and release orchestration.\nComfort working across both Windows and Linux server environments.\nFamiliarity with Slack for operational workflows, alert routing, and incident communication.\n\n Desired / Additional\nExperience with alert noise reduction strategies and observability cost optimization (log ingestion, pipeline rules, cardinality management).\nBackground facilitating chaos engineering, game day exercises, or failure injection to build team resilience.\nKnowledge of VM-hosted SQL Server monitoring and performance optimization.\nFamiliarity with FinTech compliance requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001) and audit evidence collection.\nExperience measuring and improving key reliability metrics (MTTR, MTTD, availability, error budgets) at an organizational level.\nPython or Bash scripting experience in addition to PowerShell.\nFamiliarity with Jira for incident tracking and workflow automation.\nOther common names for this role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability Engineer, Incident Management Engineer\n\nFor positions that will be based in NY, the annual salary range for this position is below. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant’s experience and qualifications for the position. This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions. \nNY Annual Base Salary Range\n$160,000—$200,000 USD\nWHO WE ARE:\nDo Your Best Work\nThe opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders\nA 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.\nThrive 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.\nIn-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in. \nBi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team\nWe come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!\nTake Control of Your Finances\nCompetitive salary, bonuses, and equity\nCompetitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support\nEmployee giving match\nMobile phone stipend\nTake Care of Yourself\nR&R days so you can rest and recharge\nGenerous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming\nGenerous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it\nIndustry-leading parental leave policies. 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