Senior Software Engineer, MLOps

This person can be located in our Toronto, Remote (US), New York City, San Francisco, or Miami office.

Ripple’s mission is to enable payments every way, everywhere for everyone. We believe connecting traditional financial entities like banks, payment providers and corporations with emerging blockchain technologies and users is the path to an open, decentralized, and more inclusive financial future. This Internet of Value gives any internet-enabled person, application or device access to financial services that are transparent, fast, reliable, and cheap. Delivering this vision is a challenge of massive scale spanning $155 trillion in annual cross border fiat payments and the $1.5 trillion market of digital assets that has grown 10X in the last year.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Operations to join a new team charged with determining and delivering optimal liquidity for every customer in the world in a cost-effective, robust and scalable manner. Candidates will partner closely with applied scientists and engineers to build out a ML infrastructure to enable delivering scalable production machine learning services to solve these liquidity challenges. You will be responsible for the design and implementation of the infrastructure and tools to create and deploy production models. Ideal candidates will have a track record of technical excellence in designing, building and delivering reliable solutions as part of a team. As a member of a new initiative, you must be passionate about inventing and delivering customer-focused solutions to ambitious and ambiguous challenges.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Be an entrepreneurial builder, working up and down the data stack, mixing data engineering, machine learning and software engineering to jumpstart this new initiative.
• Design and build effective, user-friendly infrastructure to enable scalable, auditable, compliant and maintainable machine learning services at Ripple.
• Collaborate with machine learning engineers, software engineers and product managers to develop platform to support ML workflows including experimentation, training and production operations
• Build and maintain systems with an infrastructure-as-code approach
• Establish and manage the cloud stack (AWS or GCP or Databricks) required for ML resources
• Design and implement tools and processes for the entire ML Ops including model development, model deployment, model serving, model monitoring and experimentation.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

• Degree in computer science or other quantitative field; masters or PhD preferred
• 5+ years software engineering experience with 3+ years developing production machine learning systems preferred
• Experience with general cloud Infrastructure and concept of infrastructure as code. 
• Experience with machine learning lifecycle platforms (Kubeflow, MLflow) and cloud data services (GCP, AWS)
• Experience with machine learning frameworks tools like scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch
• A collaborative coder, comfortable with Git and code reviews
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Attention to detail and a commitment to excellence

WHO WE ARE:

Ripple is doing for value what the internet did for information: enabling its instant and seamless flow around the world. We call this the Internet of Value (IoV). Using blockchain and cryptocurrency technology, Ripple is dedicated to creating powerful gains in financial efficiency, equity and inclusion. In addition, Ripple is developing and enabling the future use cases that will catalyze the new digital economy for governments, businesses and consumers.

Ripple has offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, London, Mumbai, Singapore, São Paulo, Toronto, Reykjavík, Washington D.C. and Dubai.

WHAT WE OFFER – The resources and support to be your best at work and beyond:

Do Your Best Work

• 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 no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
• Ripple is Flexible First: you have the option to work remotely, from our offices, or a combination of the two within the 11 countries we are located around the world.
• 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 off-sites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!

Take Control of Your Finances

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
• Bonus Flexibility Program: Participants in the Corporate Bonus Plan have the option to elect to receive their annual bonus in cash, equity or XRP, or a combination.
• 100% paid medical and dental and 95% paid vision insurance for employees starting on your first day
• 401k (with match) 
• Commuter benefits
• Employee giving match
• Mobile phone stipend

Take Care of Yourself

• Twice a quarter R&R days so you can rest and recharge
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
• Flexible 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. Interns - please discuss benefits with your recruiter.