Staff Security Engineer, Secure Digital Asset Operations
Ripple
Operations
San Francisco, CA, USA · United States
USD 192k-240k / year + Equity
Posted on Aug 19, 2025
At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. It’s big, it’s bold, and we’re already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.
If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.
THE WORK:
As a Staff Security Engineer within the Secure Digital Asset Operations (SDAO) function, you will collaborate with leadership and cross-functional Finance, Product, and Engineering teams to secure Ripple’s digital assets. Your primary responsibility will be designing, implementing, managing, and optimizing processes and solutions in place to protect these assets.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Secure digital assets: Develop, implement, and manage processes to catalogue and secure the handling and storage of digital assets.
- Continuously enhance security posture: Drive security risk assessments of digital asset safeguards to find opportunities for improvement, then collaborate with the Information Security team and cross-functional partners to design and implement those improvements.
- Effectively communicate security posture: Develop effective methods to measure, supervise, and communicate security posture to key partners.
- Evangelize security best practices: Raise awareness among individuals and teams through educating them on how to secure both Ripple and personal digital assets effectively.
- Guide strategy: Advise on digital asset security methodologies, tooling decisions, and vendor integrations to improve the security posture.
WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
- 8+ years of industry experience securing digital assets and a demonstrated knowledge of crypto/blockchain/web3/smart contracts.
- Strong knowledge of key management solutions, cryptography, and key management best practices that include the secure creation, distribution, storage, and usage of cryptographic keys.
- Hands-on experience setting up, configuring, and maintaining a variety of digital asset wallet solutions (Software, Hardware, MPC, and/or MultiSig Wallets) and secure offline laptop solutions.
- Experience handling sensitive work with discretion and professionalism, and demonstrated ability to become a trusted digital asset security advisor to the business.
- Clear and concise communicator/writer who can effectively communicate to varying levels of junior and senior stakeholders across different organizations, hold teams accountable, and can document and translate complex security and compliance topics into functional requirements.
- Comfortable operating on an unpaved road and dealing with ambiguity and complexity through effectively prioritizing and handling multiple assignments at a time.
- Passion for continuous learning and willingness to learn and apply processes unique to the challenges at Ripple.
For positions that will be based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is below. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant’s experience and qualifications for the position. This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions.
CA Annual Base Salary Range
$192,000—$240,000 USD
WHO WE ARE:
Do Your Best Work
- The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
- 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
- Mobile phone stipend
Take Care of Yourself
- R&R days so you can rest and recharge
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
- Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events
Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.
Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.
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