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.
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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. Your core mission will be to architect, implement, and operate technical solutions and operational processes to protect high-value Ripple digital assets. You'll design and maintain secure transaction processes, build security automation and tooling to monitor digital asset posture in real time, and maintain a program to detect and respond to smart contract risks. You'll also mentor engineering teams on digital asset and smart contract security best practices and advise on security engineering methodologies, tooling, and vendor integrations.
Requirements
- 8+ years of industry experience in security and/or engineering with a focus on building services to secure digital assets
- Strong understanding of the security architecture for digital asset primitives and the end-to-end security of high value on-chain and off-chain transactions
- Strong working knowledge of key management solutions (MPC, HSM, etc), cryptography, and key lifecycle and management best practices including secure creation, distribution, storage, usage, and revocation/destruction of cryptographic keys
- Strong proficiency in Javascript and/or Python programming languages
- Experience handling sensitive work with discretion and professionalism
- Clear, concise technical communicator and writer who can document and translate complex security and compliance topics into functional engineering requirements
- Comfortable operating on an unpaved road and dealing with ambiguity and complexity
Responsibilities
- Design, code, implement, and maintain technical solutions and operational processes for securely and reliably performing high-value digital asset transactions
- Develop and deploy security automation and tooling to measure, monitor, and communicate the real-time security posture of digital assets to key stakeholders
- Maintain and enhance program to proactively monitor and respond to smart contract risks
- Raise awareness and provide guidance to engineering teams on digital asset and smart contract security best practices
- Drive security-by-design principles and foster a culture of security ownership
- Advise on digital asset security engineering methodologies, tooling decisions, and vendor integrations
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- In-office collaboration flexibility with 10+ days a month in office
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, 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
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages