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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 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 in security engineering with 5+ years in leadership/management roles
- 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 blockchain vulnerabilities
- Experience with authentication/authorization standards (OAuth, SAML, OIDC)
- Demonstrated IT security expertise in 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 fostering security culture and building high-performing teams
- Excellent problem-solving skills for complex security challenges
Preferred experience in crypto, blockchain, or FinTech sectors. This role is critical to protecting Ripple's business and customers by embedding security throughout the technology stack, with particular focus on securing AI tooling and agentic workflows.
