Senior Staff Security Engineer, Product Security

Serve as the dedicated Security Engineering partner for Ripple Treasury BU, owning the security posture of the Treasury solution and infrastructure environment from assessment through remediation and ongoing maturity improvement.

Lead threat modeling and security architecture reviews across Treasury offerings.

Own the secure software development lifecycle for your product surface area, defining security guardrails, CI/CD integrations, and developer guidance that make secure-by-default practical.

Drive cloud security architecture for Treasury across Azure and AWS, including IAM, network segmentation, encryption, zero trust controls, Kubernetes traffic policies, and DDoS and WAF strategy, ensuring alignment with Ripple's infrastructure standards as Treasury integrates.

Partner with GRC to ensure Treasury meets compliance obligations across SOC 2, ISO 27001, and applicable financial regulatory frameworks as the BU integrates into Ripple's governance program.

Own vulnerability discovery through security assessments, penetration testing, and bug bounty programs, driving findings through triage, prioritization, remediation, and validation, with a bias toward automation and developer self-service.

Build and scale a Security Champions model within Treasury Engineering, embedding security advocates who extend the Security Engineering team's reach.

Influence engineering architecture decisions at the senior level, participating in design reviews and architectural assessments with the standing to raise security concerns that get addressed.

Mentor and develop Security Engineers, raising the technical bar through threat model walkthroughs, design discussions, and structured knowledge sharing.

Stay ahead of the threat landscape for FinTech, crypto, and enterprise treasury systems, translating emerging attack techniques into concrete defensive improvements across platforms and systems.

10+ years of Security Engineering experience, including hands-on work in Product Security and Infrastructure Security.

Expert-level product security skills, including threat modeling using STRIDE or equivalent, security architecture review, OWASP Top 10 and beyond, API security, authentication and authorization design, and secure SDLC development.

Deep expertise securing cloud environments across Azure, AWS, and/or GCP, covering IAM architecture, network security, secrets management, container and Kubernetes security, and infrastructure as code security.

Hands-on experience building and operating DevSecOps tooling, including static analysis, dynamic analysis, software composition analysis, secrets scanning, container scanning, and CI/CD pipeline security integration.

Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, or equivalent, with the ability to build security tooling, automate controls, and integrate security into engineering workflows without relying entirely on third-party tools.

Experience with cryptographic principles and key management, including HSMs, MPC, PKI, and key rotation, with an understanding of the consequences of key management failure in financial infrastructure.

A practitioner's approach — most effective when close to the work, writing threat models, reviewing architecture documents, reading code, and building tooling.