Staff Security Engineer, Secure Digital Asset Operations
Ripple provides crypto and blockchain solutions for enterprises, enabling global financial entities to move, manage, and tokenize value. They focus on improving existing financial systems through partnerships and regulatory compliance, with products used in over 50 countries.
Projects
About Ripple
Ripple is an enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions company that aims to enable the world to move value as seamlessly as information moves today. Their mission is to build breakthrough crypto solutions for a world without economic borders. Using blockchain technology, Ripple facilitates global financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to move, manage, and tokenize value, thereby unlocking greater economic opportunity. The company works within existing financial systems to improve them, partnering with customers to streamline infrastructure and collaborating with regulators to ensure solutions are secure and compliant. Ripple's products are in commercial use by hundreds of customers across more than 50 countries, helping them expand into new markets, access liquidity solutions, and generate crypto-enabled revenue streams. They also support developers by providing tools for building on the XRP Ledger, a fast and sustainable public blockchain. Ripple’s payments, custody and stablecoin solutions empower financial institutions to integrate blockchain and digital assets into their business in a simple, secure, compliant way—all in one place. From instant payments to asset tokenization, blockchain and crypto are happening right now, across the world. It’s happening to suppliers, to retailers, to exchanges, to currencies, to sectors, to industries, to markets, and to global businesses. And it’s happening with Ripple.
Skills
About the Role
You will collaborate with leadership and cross-functional Finance, Product, and Engineering teams to secure Ripple's digital assets. You'll design, implement, manage, and optimize processes and solutions to protect these assets, driving security risk assessments and partnering with the Information Security team to continuously enhance the security posture. You'll develop effective ways to measure and communicate security posture to key partners, evangelize security best practices across the organization, and advise on digital asset security methodologies, tooling decisions, and vendor integrations.
Requirements
- 8+ years of industry experience in information security securing digital assets, with demonstrated knowledge of crypto/blockchain/web3/smart contracts
- Strong knowledge of key management solutions, cryptography, and key management best practices including secure creation, distribution, storage, and usage of cryptographic keys
- Hands-on experience setting up, configuring, and maintaining digital asset wallet solutions (Software, Hardware, MPC, and/or MultiSig Wallets) and secure offline laptop solutions
- Experience handling sensitive work with discretion and professionalism, and demonstrated ability to become a trusted digital asset security advisor
- Clear and concise communication skills across varying levels of stakeholders, with ability to document and translate complex security and compliance topics into functional requirements
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity and complexity, effectively prioritizing and handling multiple assignments at a time
Responsibilities
- Develop, implement, document, and manage processes to catalogue and secure the handling and storage of digital assets
- Drive security risk assessments of digital asset safeguards to find opportunities for improvement
- Collaborate with the Information Security team and cross-functional partners to design and implement security improvements
- Develop effective methods to measure, supervise, and communicate security posture to key partners
- Raise awareness among individuals and teams by educating them on securing digital assets
- Advise on digital asset security methodologies, tooling decisions, and vendor integrations
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting with Leadership Team
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages