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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.
You will be responsible for building and mentoring a team of security engineers while defining Ripple's security strategy and fostering a security-first culture across the organization. The role sits at the intersection of traditional security engineering and emerging AI security challenges, requiring expertise in securing AI agents, agentic workflows, and AI-assisted development tools.
Key responsibilities include:
- Setting strategic vision and roadmap for security engineering, with emphasis on product security, infrastructure security, IT security, and AI 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 for AI-assisted development
- Leading, mentoring, and strengthening the security engineering team
- Driving security integration into day-to-day development processes
- Leading security architecture reviews for new products and major initiatives
- Owning vulnerability management program, including penetration testing coordination and remediation prioritization
- Collaborating with engineering, product, and IT leadership on security alignment
Required qualifications:
- 15+ years security engineering experience with 5+ years in leadership/management roles
- Preferred background in crypto, blockchain, or fintech
- Hands-on expertise in AI security, including LLM and AI agent risk assessment
- Expert-level knowledge of security architecture, cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), and network security
- Strong understanding of cryptographic principles, secure coding, and web/blockchain vulnerabilities
- Experience with authentication/authorization standards (OAuth, SAML, OIDC)
- Demonstrated IT security expertise: endpoint protection, network security, IAM, corporate security policy
- Threat modeling and risk identification experience
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Track record building high-performing security teams and fostering positive security culture
