Staff Cloud Architect in Sydney

At 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. Join the Ripple Treasury Reconciliation team where you’ll be solving complex problems and having fun while passionately discussing with your team members!

About the Reconciliation team: Ripple Treasury's Match and Reconciliation platform sits at the heart of how the world's largest financial institutions and enterprises close their books. Our vision is to create a completely new user experience with financial tools that has no equal on the market, with users first in mind. The Reconciliation platform performs automated record matching with an intuitive rules-based approach, collaborative exception handling, and reporting across massive, high-stakes data volumes.

What we are looking for: We are looking for a Staff Infrastructure Architect to own the infrastructure of our growing Reconciliation platform. You'll set the direction, architecture and design for our platform, focusing on performance, stability, security and how to integrate newer technologies. You will also be setting the technical direction and standards for our team while working alongside senior infrastructure engineers who own day-to-day execution and operational work. This is a hands-on architecture role, not a pure strategy or management position — you'll write core foundational code and build reference implementations, but the bulk of routine implementation work belongs to the team.

What you'll do:

• Set and own infrastructure architecture direction.
• Drive architecture, scalability, and performance decisions across the platform.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior infrastructure engineers — reviewing designs, unblocking hard problems, and playing a key role in deepening the team's expertise.
• Establish infrastructure standards and patterns for the team to create a high benchmark for quality, performance and maintenance of the system.
• Stay hands-on: prototype, build critical-path components, and get into the code where it matters.
• Make and be accountable for infrastructure tradeoff decisions with long-term cost, scalability, or maintainability implications.
• Represent infrastructure and security posture to external stakeholders when technical questions arise.

What you’ll bring:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and owning large-scale distributed infrastructure, including a track record of owning architecture decisions yourself, with 4+ years serving as a technical lead and mentoring engineers.
• Deep expertise with AWS & Kubernetes.
• Minimum 5+ years experience with each.
• Expertise in Linux and Windows server environments, with strong experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Argocd, and scripting languages including Bash, Python, and PowerShell.
• Experience with data infrastructure and processing technologies such as Spark and MSSQL.
• Experience building the systems that power high-volume transactional workloads, ideally in finance space.
• Cybersecurity experience is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• A track record of building infrastructure that scales, stays available, and remains secure, using Agile practices to ship reliably.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

This role is architecture-led, not implementation-led — we're looking for someone who has owned and been accountable for infrastructure design decisions, not someone whose primary experience is executing infrastructure designed by others. This is also a technical leadership role, not a people-management position.

WHO WE ARE:

• 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 every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
• In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture.
• Bi-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 offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!

Take Control of Your Finances:

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity.
• Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support.
• Employee giving match.
• Mobile phone stipend.

Take Care of Yourself:

• R&R days so you can rest and recharge.
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming.
• Generous 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. Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.