Staff Software Engineer - Authentication & Authorization

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.

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.

HOW WE WORK

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.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Set the technical direction for Ripple's identity platform, including authentication flows, federation across multiple identity providers, and fine-grained authorisation.
• Lead the design and delivery of a unified identity experience across Ripple's product portfolio.
• Build and operate platform services on Kubernetes, with a focus on reliability, observability, and secure secret management.
• Partner with security, compliance, and product teams to translate regulatory requirements into platform capabilities.
• Write clear technical proposals and contribute to architecture discussions across the engineering org.
• Mentor engineers on the team through code review, design feedback, and collaboration.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• Backend engineering experience in Golang or Java, including building and operating production applications within Kubernetes environments.
• Experience designing or contributing to identity systems, ideally in a multi-tenant or federated context.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools as part of your day-to-day engineering workflow.
• Experience collaborating across teams and writing design documents that build alignment.

NICE TO HAVE

• Familiarity with modern authentication protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML, and how they behave in production.
• Experience with policy-as-code approaches to authorization (attribute-based, relationship-based, or hybrid).

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, 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.