Ripple helps financial institutions transform global payments by providing blockchain-powered infrastructure for cross-border payments, digital asset custody, and stablecoin solutions. With it, users can enable instant settlements, reduce costs, and access new markets. The company was originally founded as OpenCoin in 2012 and rebranded to Ripple in 2015.

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Hybrid · San Francisco · Required

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About the Role

Build and lead a dedicated Security Engineering team securing Ripple's products, infrastructure, and corporate IT systems. Define security strategy, embed security across the technology stack, and ensure AI tooling and agentic workflows are secure, controlled, and auditable.

Requirements

15+ years of security engineering experience, including 5+ years in leadership or management.
Hands-on expertise in AI security, including LLMs, AI agents, AI-assisted development workflows, and guardrails.
Expert-level security architecture knowledge across AWS, GCP, Azure, application stacks, and network security.
Strong understanding of cryptography, secure coding, and web and blockchain vulnerabilities such as OWASP Top 10.
Experience with OAuth, SAML, and OIDC authentication and authorization standards.
Expertise in endpoint protection, network security, IAM, and corporate security policy enforcement.
Hands-on threat modeling and risk identification experience.
Ability to communicate technical concepts and security risks to technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience fostering security culture and leading high-performing security teams.
Excellent problem-solving skills for complex security challenges.

Responsibilities

Set the strategic vision and roadmap for product, infrastructure, IT, and AI security.
Serve as a security domain expert for senior leadership, engineering teams, and partners.
Define guardrails, scope boundaries, blast-radius limits, and rollback mechanisms for AI agents and tools.
Implement agentic SDLC guardrails, testing gates, and human oversight for AI-assisted development.
Lead, mentor, and strengthen the security engineering team.
Drive security guidelines across the engineering organization.
Lead security architecture reviews for products, infrastructure changes, and engineering initiatives.
Own vulnerability management, penetration testing coordination, remediation prioritization, and risk closure.
Collaborate with engineering, product, and IT leadership on security priorities and customer outcomes.

Benefits

Professional development budget
Competitive physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support benefits
Employee giving match
Mobile phone stipend
R&R days
Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual programming
Generous vacation policy
Industry-leading parental leave policies
Family planning benefits
Catered lunches and stocked kitchens
Bonuses and equity