Senior Staff Security Engineer, Product Security

As a Senior Staff Security Engineer at Ripple, you will be one of the company's most senior technical security practitioners, operating at the intersection of application security, cloud infrastructure security, and secure software delivery. You will serve as the dedicated security engineering partner for Ripple Treasury, leading the technical direction for product and infrastructure security while raising the technical bar as the engineering organization scales across new products and architectures.

What you'll do

• Own the security posture of the Treasury solution and infrastructure environment, from assessment through remediation and ongoing maturity improvement.
• Lead threat modeling and security architecture reviews across Treasury offerings.
• Own the secure software development lifecycle for your product surface area, defining security guardrails, CI/CD integrations, and developer guidance that make secure by default a practical reality.
• Drive the cloud security architecture for Treasury across Azure and AWS, including IAM, network segmentation, encryption, zero trust controls, Kubernetes traffic policies, and DDoS and WAF strategy, ensuring alignment with Ripple's infrastructure standards.
• Partner with GRC to ensure Treasury meets its compliance obligations across SOC 2, ISO 27001, and applicable financial regulatory frameworks.
• Own vulnerability discovery via security assessments, penetration testing, and bug bounty, driving findings through triage, prioritization, remediation, and validation with a bias toward automation and developer self-service.
• Build and scale a Security Champions model within Treasury Engineering, embedding security advocates who extend the Security Engineering team's reach.
• Influence engineering architecture decisions at the senior level, participating in design reviews and architectural assessments with the standing to raise security concerns that get acted on.
• Mentor and develop Security Engineers, raising the technical bar through threat model walkthroughs, design discussions, and structured knowledge sharing.
• Stay ahead of the threat landscape for FinTech, crypto, and enterprise treasury systems, translating emerging attack techniques into concrete defensive improvements.

What you bring

• 10+ years of Security Engineering experience, including hands-on work in Product Security and Infrastructure Security.
• Expert-level product security skills including threat modeling using STRIDE or equivalent, security architecture review, OWASP Top 10 and beyond, API security, authentication and authorization design, and secure SDLC development.
• Deep expertise in securing cloud environments across Azure, AWS, and/or GCP, covering IAM architecture, network security, secrets management, container and Kubernetes security, and infrastructure as code security.
• Hands-on experience building and operating DevSecOps tooling, including static analysis, dynamic analysis, software composition analysis, secrets scanning, container scanning, and CI/CD pipeline security integration.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, or equivalent, with the ability to build security tooling, automate controls, and integrate security into engineering workflows.
• Experience with cryptographic principles and key management, including HSMs, MPC, PKI, and key rotation, with an understanding of the consequences of key management failure in financial infrastructure.
• A practitioner's approach, most effective when close to the work: writing threat models, reviewing architecture documents, reading code, and building tooling.

Nice to have

• Background in FinTech, crypto, blockchain, or high-stakes financial environments, particularly where security failures have direct customer or systemic financial impact.

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $224,000-$300,000 USD (for New York-based positions), plus equity and additional compensation such as bonuses.
• 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, work with your manager to take time off when you need it.
• Industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits.
• Employee giving match and mobile phone stipend.
• Flexible in-office collaboration, with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days a month they come in.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens, and team offsites and bonding activities.

About Ripple

Ripple is building a world where value moves like information does today. Through crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers, Ripple is improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity.