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Infrastructure Engineer Intern (Summer 2025)

Toronto, Canada

Please note this is for Toronto, Canada. You only need to apply to one location if there are multiple listed for the job.

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. 

If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.

THE WORK:

As an Infrastructure Platform Engineer, you will play a critical role in helping to advance Ripple's production infrastructure and release pipelines. Platform Engineers at Ripple are a hybrid of systems and software engineers who support the design and lifecycle of our hosted products. We are responsible for providing global and highly available infrastructure that enables Ripple to be a global leader in cross-border payments.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
  • Work with your mentor, and overall Infrastructure Platform team to build tools, drive automation, streamline observability backends and instrumentation for reducing operational friction and increasing engineering efficiency.
  • Architect, deploy, and maintain Ripple’s multi-region, multi-provider service platforms (with an emphasis on security, resiliency and observability)
  • Create solutions for unique technical challenges faced by Ripple involving PKI, secret management, geographic failover, data replication, availability, and platform resiliency
  • Participate in the leadership of DevOps-first principles within the organization
  • Explore avenues to integrate AI in improving team processes, streamlining infrastructure and enhancing response to high impact events.
  • Research promising new tools and technologies, push the team to experiment and evolve
WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
  • Experience in at least one programming language like Python, Java or Golang
  • Excellent debugging, problem solving, and analytical skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management.
  • Foundational knowledge of DevOps tools and processes like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Git, CI/CD, Infrastructure or Cloud (hands on experience is a plus).
  • Foundational knowledge of
  • Currently enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate or PHd program, preferably in a computer science or related field.
  • Coursework / previous intern experience with Observability tools such as Grafana, Kibana, Datadog or similar.
  • Have contributed to projects involving AI-driven solutions, requiring a foundational understanding of AI concepts and a willingness to learn and apply them

WHO WE ARE:

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.
  • In-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. 
  • 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. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.
 

Req ID: 25055