Ripple
Senior Director, Security Engineering
Chicago, Illinois, United States · Director · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 29 days ago
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About the role
- It's big, it's bold, and we're already doing it.
- And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.
- You will play a substantial role in defining the security strategy and encouraging a culture of security across the entire company.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a security domain expert, providing guidance and communicating security risks and concepts to senior leadership, engineering teams, and other partners.
- Implement and enforce agentic SDLC guardrails, testing gates, and human oversight of AI-assisted development workflows.
- Drive the implementation of security guidelines across the engineering organization, ensuring security is integrated into day-to-day development processes.
- Lead security architecture reviews for new products, infrastructure changes, and major engineering initiatives, serving as a formal checkpoint before systems go to production.
- Own the vulnerability management program, including coordinating penetration testing, prioritizing remediation, and partnering with engineering teams to close risk at pace.
- Hands-on expertise in AI security: a clear understanding of the risk surface introduced by LLMs, AI agents, and AI-assisted development workflows, and how to build guardrails around them.
- A track record of fostering a positive security culture within an organization and proven experience leading and building a high-performing security team.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to effectively and creatively manage complex security challenges.
- The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
- We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in security engineering, with at least 5+ years in a leadership or management role, preferably in the crypto, blockchain, or FinTech space.
- Strong understanding of cryptographic principles, secure coding practices, and common web and blockchain vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10).
- Experience with authentication and authorization standards (OAuth, SAML, OIDC) and their security implications.
- Hands-on experience with threat modeling methodologies and risk identification techniques.
- R&R days so you can rest and recharge
Compensation
- Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
Benefits
- Lead, mentor, and strengthen a team of security engineers, cultivating an atmosphere that values technical excellence, continual learning, and innovation.
- A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact.
- A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
- Mobile phone stipend
Company info
- Do Your Best Work
- A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact. A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
- Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
- In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
- We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!
- Take Control of Your Finances
- Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
- Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Take Care of Yourself
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- plicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, militar
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