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Senior Staff Security Engineer, Ripple Treasury

Ripple · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Posted about 2 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
53 days
Ripple 's roles stay open a median of 54 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Ripple 's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Ripple
high
95 stale, 2 reposted of 128 open
Hiring momentum
185 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-26

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Ripple 's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Ripple .

About this role

As a Senior Staff Security Engineer at Ripple, you will lead the security efforts for the Treasury business unit, focusing on application security, cloud infrastructure security, and secure software delivery. Your responsibilities include threat modeling, security architecture reviews, vulnerability management, and driving secure design practices. You will also mentor other security engineers and influence engineering decisions to enhance Ripple's security posture.

Our read on this posting3.2out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Ripple as an employer.

What you need

  • 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 in 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 on third-party tools for everything
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Background in FinTech, crypto, blockchain, or high-stakes financial environments is a strong plus, particularly where security failures have direct customer or systemic financial impact.

What you get

  • Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
  • Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
  • Employee giving match
  • Mobile phone stipend
  • R&R days to rest and recharge
  • Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed for positions outside of IL, only a range for IL provided
  • Role involves significant responsibility and influence over security architecture and practices
  • Fast-paced start-up environment may require adaptability and quick decision-making

Summarised from Ripple 's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by Ripple on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-26. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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