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Salary: USD 292,000 - 0 / annual
Ripple is seeking a Senior Director of Security Engineering to lead a dedicated team securing the company's products, infrastructure, and corporate IT systems. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep technical expertise and strategic vision.
Key responsibilities include:
- Setting strategic vision and roadmap for the Security Engineering team, with emphasis on product security, infrastructure security, and IT security
- Serving as a security domain expert, communicating risks and concepts to senior leadership and engineering teams
- Defining guardrails around AI agents and tools, including scope boundaries, blast radius limits, and rollback mechanisms
- Implementing agentic SDLC guardrails, testing gates, and human oversight of AI-assisted development workflows
- Leading, mentoring, and strengthening a team of security engineers
- Driving implementation of security guidelines across the engineering organization
- Leading security architecture reviews for new products and major initiatives
- Owning the vulnerability management program, including penetration testing coordination and remediation prioritization
- Collaborating with engineering, product, and IT leadership on security alignment
Required qualifications:
- 15+ years of security engineering experience with 5+ years in a leadership or management role
- Preferred experience in crypto, blockchain, or FinTech
- Hands-on expertise in AI security, including understanding of LLM and AI agent risks
- Expert-level knowledge of security architecture, cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), and network security
- Strong understanding of cryptographic principles, secure coding, and common vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10)
- Experience with authentication/authorization standards (OAuth, SAML, OIDC)
- Demonstrated IT security expertise including endpoint protection, IAM, and corporate security policy
- Threat modeling and risk identification experience
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Track record of building high-performing security teams and fostering positive security culture
