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Senior Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA, United States

Please note this is for San Francisco, CA, United States. 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 XRPL is a decentralized, public blockchain led by a global community of businesses and developers looking to solve problems and create value. Proven reliable over more than a decade of operation and closing over 90 million ledger, the XRPL offers streamlined development, low transaction costs, high performance, and sustainability. We are looking for a senior engineer to help us maintain this high technical bar, while building innovative solutions to ensure the XRPL can power the growing needs of the global digital economy. RippleX Engineering is redefining quality for the XRPL ecosystem by building an autonomous, data-driven QA layer that validates rippled and Clio end to end. The focus is on functional testing, ensuring every change to the XRPL stack is correct, predictable, and reliable across the network. This role is more than testing; it's about building the reliability backbone of XRPL.

What You Will Do

  • Develop and deploy test frameworks that validate XRPL core behaviors, ledger flows, RPCs, and amendment logic.
  • Develop self-serve testing capabilities that allow developers to trigger full functional test suites through CI/CD pipelines without QA intervention.
  • Integrate QA workflows using tools such as PyTest, JUnit, and TestContainers to make testing modular, reproducible, and environment-agnostic.
  • Expand property-based and fuzz testing (Hypothesis, Antithesis, or libFuzzer) to uncover protocol-level inconsistencies and logic edge cases.
  • Automate test result visualization and analytics using Grafana, Allure, and ReportPortal for transparent reporting and traceability.
  • Implement auto-ticketing pipelines for failed or flaky tests with logs and traces linked to GitHub or Jira issues.
  • Collaborate with engineers across RippleX and XRPL Foundation to extend open-source test visibility and reproducibility.
  • Drive the shift from manual validation to an always-on, autonomous testing ecosystem for XRPL.

What You Will Bring

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years focused on test automation, QA infrastructure, or validation frameworks.
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Go, with experience building and maintaining test frameworks or CI/CD integrations and Docker/shell scripting experience.
  • Hands-on experience with QA tools such as PyTest, JUnit, TestNG, Hypothesis, Antithesis, TestContainers, Allure, and ReportPortal.
  • Proficiency in functional testing, closed system validation, property-based testing, and fuzzing methodologies.
  • Practical experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI) and observability stacks (Grafana, Loki, ElasticSearch).
  • Understanding of distributed systems, networking, or blockchain protocols—XRPL or similar ecosystems a plus.
  • Ability to automate data setup, environment provisioning, and reporting pipelines.
For positions that will be based in CA, 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. 
CA Annual Base Salary Range
$160,000—$200,000 USD

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. 
  • 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. 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: 25403