Jobs / United States / Ripple Labs INC
Director of Engineering, Infrastructure
Ripple Labs INC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA, United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 26 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 17 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Ripple Labs INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Manager, Software Engineering” (Computer and Information Systems Managers) in CA: $255k–$260k, median $258k. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
A verdict summarises public evidence; it is not legal advice and never a guarantee — the employer and the immigration authority decide. Sign in to factor in where you can already work.
Or apply yourself on the official page →
Sponsor Radar — Ripple Labs INC
The US Department of Labor certified 26 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 17 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
Past sponsorship or register membership never guarantees sponsorship for this vacancy or for you. Full Sponsor Radar for Ripple Labs INC →
About the role
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. 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 embrace meaningful challenges, join us, and build real world value. Every payment, every custody operation, and every line of code at Ripple runs on the infrastructure our platform teams build. We operate a multi-cloud, Kubernetes-native environment spanning multiple regions and regulatory jurisdictions, engineered for the availability and security standards our financial institution customers expect — and for the developer velocity our engineers need. The systems this organization owns are the substrate for everything Ripple ships. We have a big vision and the ambition to match. We are seeking the same in engineering leaders. You see infrastructure not as plumbing but as leverage: the difference between an engineering organization that ships weekly and one that ships continuously, between a platform that survives a regional outage and one that doesn't notice it happened. We're looking for a hands-on engineering leader to develop and guide the teams responsible for Ripple's cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platform, and developer experience. WHAT YOU'LL DO • Lead the technical and organizational strategy managing multi-cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platform at Ripple, balancing reliability, security, cost, and developer velocity y • Lead multiple teams and managers across compute platform, cloud infrastructure, developer experience, and reliability engineering • Define and deliver the multi-year infrastructure roadmap, including cluster architecture, workload orchestration, service networking, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD • Set the standard for operational excellence — SLOs, incident response, on-call health, blameless postmortems, and dynamic rollout practices — and hold the organization to it • Drive multi-cloud strategy and execution: workload placement, portability, avoiding accidental lock-in, disaster recovery, and multi-region resilience • Partner with Security and Compliance to build infrastructure that satisfies SOC 2, ISO 27001, and jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirements without slowing engineering down • Own cloud spend for your organization, with clear accountability for efficiency and unit economics as the platform scales • Provide hands-on technical leadership — architecture reviews, design docs, incident escalations, and the occasional pull request • Mentor and grow the professional and technical development of your team, both managers and individual contributors • Establish team objectives and quarterly plans in alignment with business and organizational goals • Translate infrastructure investments into terms that resonate with engineers, product leaders, and execut