Software Engineer Intern, RippleX Quality Enforcers (Summer 2026)
Ripple is a company focused on improving the global financial system through crypto solutions. As a Software Engineer Intern on the Quality Enforcers team, you will develop tools and services for the XRP Ledger ecosystem while applying software engineering and distributed systems concepts.
Responsibilities
- Build and implement backend tools and components of a multi‑agent system that exercise rippled, orchestrate tests from high‑level, natural‑language requests, and verify behavior across different scenarios
- Build intelligent data workflows and pipelines over metrics, logs, traces, ledger data, and mainnet telemetry to compare runs to baselines and surface clear, actionable signals (anomalies, trends, hotspots)
- Use AI-assisted techniques if they provide customer value. This includes anomaly detection on time-series metrics and logs. It also involves natural-language summaries that make sophisticated run results clear for developers
- Collaborate with engineers on building, code reviews, and documentation, and help refine the heuristics for what 'good' looks like for XRPL reliability and performance
Skills
- Currently enrolled in an Undergraduate, Graduate, or PhD program or possessing equivalent experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Available for a 12‑week internship in Summer 2026 (May or June start)
- Intent to return to your degree program afterward
- Experience with at least one programming language such as C++, Python, Java, or Go
- Proven understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, operating systems or networking)
- Interest in distributed systems and/or data-intensive systems and methods to validate and observe them at scale
- Comfortable working on backend or system-focused projects and collaborating in a team environment
- Curiosity about applied ML/LLMs or automation powered by artificial intelligence for developer tools and analysis
Benefits
- 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!
- 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
- 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
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