Senior Staff Security Engineer, Product Security

As a Senior Staff Security Engineer for Product Security at Ripple, you operate at the intersection of application security, cloud infrastructure security, and secure software delivery. You serve as the dedicated security engineering partner for Ripple Treasury, raising the technical bar and extending Ripple's security posture as the engineering organization scales across new products, new architectures, and an increasingly sophisticated threat landscape.

What you'll do

• Serve as the dedicated Security Engineering partner for Ripple Treasury, owning 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 full 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 across platforms and systems.

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 $232,000-$310,000 USD (for positions based in California), plus equity and bonuses.
• Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support.
• Professional development budget to support learning.
• Flexible in-office collaboration, with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days per month to come in.
• R&R days to rest and recharge.
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual programming.
• Generous vacation policy to take time off when you need it.
• Industry-leading parental leave and family planning benefits.
• Employee giving match and mobile phone stipend.
• Team offsites, bonding activities, and events.

About Ripple

Ripple builds crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers to improve the global financial system. The company operates at scale with a mission to create greater economic fairness and opportunity worldwide.