Senior Director, Security Engineering

At Ripple, you'll lead a dedicated team of Security Engineers to secure Ripple's products, infrastructure, and corporate IT systems. As Senior Director of Security Engineering, you'll define the security strategy and embed a culture of security across the entire company. This hands-on role sits at the center of how AI is reshaping software development, and you'll ensure Ripple's use of AI tooling and agentic workflows is secure, controlled, and auditable.

What you'll do

• Set the strategic vision and roadmap for the Security Engineering team, focusing on product security, infrastructure security, IT security, and AI security, including agentic guardrails and AI-assisted development risk.
• Serve as a security domain expert, providing guidance to senior leadership, engineering teams, and partners on security risks and concepts.
• Define guardrails around AI agents and tools operating within Ripple's environment, including scope boundaries, blast radius limits, and rollback mechanisms.
• Implement and enforce agentic SDLC guardrails, testing gates, and human oversight of AI-assisted development workflows.
• Lead, mentor, and strengthen a team of security engineers, cultivating an atmosphere that values technical excellence, continual learning, and innovation.
• Drive the implementation of security guidelines across the engineering organization, ensuring security is integrated into day-to-day development processes.
• Lead security architecture reviews for new products, infrastructure changes, and major engineering initiatives, serving as a formal checkpoint before systems go to production.
• Own the vulnerability management program, including coordinating penetration testing, prioritizing remediation, and partnering with engineering teams to close risk at pace.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and IT leadership to ensure alignment on security priorities and to champion security outcomes on behalf of customers.

What you bring

• 15+ years of experience in security engineering, with at least 5+ years in a leadership or management role, preferably in the crypto, blockchain, or FinTech space.
• Hands-on expertise in AI security, including a clear understanding of the risk surface introduced by LLMs, AI agents, and AI-assisted development workflows, and how to build guardrails around them.
• Expert-level knowledge of security architecture, including cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), modern application stacks, and network security.
• Strong understanding of cryptographic principles, secure coding practices, and common web and blockchain vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10).
• Experience with authentication and authorization standards (OAuth, SAML, OIDC) and their security implications.
• Demonstrated expertise in IT security, including endpoint protection, network security, identity and access management (IAM), and corporate security policy enforcement.
• Hands-on experience with threat modeling methodologies and risk identification techniques.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts and security risks to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A track record of fostering a positive security culture within an organization and proven experience leading and building a high-performing security team.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to effectively and creatively manage complex security challenges.

What we offer

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity.
• Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support.
• Professional development budget to support learning.
• R&R days to rest and recharge.
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual programming.
• Generous vacation policy, worked out with your manager.
• Industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits.
• Employee giving match.
• Mobile phone stipend.
• In-office collaboration flexibility, with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days a month they come in.
• Team offsites, team bonding activities, and company events.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens, and premium snacks and beverages.

About Ripple

Ripple builds crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to improve the global financial system and create greater economic fairness and opportunity worldwide.