Staff Software Engineer - Authentication & Authorization at Ripple Labs answer
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Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.</span></p></div><div>
<p><strong>THE WORK:</strong></p>
<p>As a Staff Software Engineer on Ripple's Authentication and Authorization platform team, you'll help shape how identity works across our growing portfolio of payment, custody, and liquidity products. Our products have grown up using different identity providers and protocols, and we're now bringing them together into a unified, consistent experience — while also building the fine-grained authorization primitives that teams across Ripple rely on every day.</p>
<p><strong>HOW WE WORK:</strong></p>
<p>AI tooling is core to how our team works day-to-day — coding assistants, LLM-based workflows, and agentic tools across design, development, and operations. We're looking for people who already use these fluently, not just curious about them.</p>
<p><strong>WHAT YOU’LL DO:</strong></p>
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<li>Set the technical direction for Ripple's identity platform, including authentication flows, federation across multiple identity providers, and fine-grained authorisation</li>
<li>Lead the design and delivery of a unified identity experience across Ripple's product portfolio</li>
<li>Build and operate platform services on Kubernetes, with a focus on reliability, observability, and secure secret management</li>
<li>Partner with security, compliance, and product teams to translate regulatory requirements into platform capabilities</li>
<li>Write clear technical proposals and contribute to architecture discussions across the engineering org</li>
<li>Mentor engineers on the team through code review, design feedback, and collaboration</li>
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<p><strong>WHAT YOU'LL BRING:&nbsp;</strong></p>
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<li>Backend engineering experience in Golang or Java, including building and operating production applications within Kubernetes environments</li>
<li>Experience designing or contributing to identity syst