Staff Security Engineer, Secure Digital Asset Operations
You will collaborate with leadership and cross-functional Finance, Product, and Engineering teams to secure Ripple's digital assets. Your core mission will be to architect, implement, and operate technical solutions and operational processes to protect high-value Ripple digital assets. You'll design and maintain secure transaction processes, build security automation and tooling to monitor digital asset posture in real time, and maintain a program to detect and respond to smart contract risks. You'll also mentor engineering teams on digital asset and smart contract security best practices and advise on security engineering methodologies, tooling, and vendor integrations.
Responsibilities
- Design, code, implement, and maintain technical solutions and operational processes for securely and reliably performing high-value digital asset transactions
- Develop and deploy security automation and tooling to measure, monitor, and communicate the real-time security posture of digital assets to key stakeholders
- Maintain and enhance program to proactively monitor and respond to smart contract risks
- Raise awareness and provide guidance to engineering teams on digital asset and smart contract security best practices
- Drive security-by-design principles and foster a culture of security ownership
- Advise on digital asset security engineering methodologies, tooling decisions, and vendor integrations
Requirements
- 8+ years of industry experience in security and/or engineering with a focus on building services to secure digital assets
- Strong understanding of the security architecture for digital asset primitives and the end-to-end security of high value on-chain and off-chain transactions
- Strong working knowledge of key management solutions (MPC, HSM, etc), cryptography, and key lifecycle and management best practices including secure creation, distribution, storage, usage, and revocation/destruction of cryptographic keys
- Strong proficiency in Javascript and/or Python programming languages
- Experience handling sensitive work with discretion and professionalism
- Clear, concise technical communicator and writer who can document and translate complex security and compliance topics into functional engineering requirements
- Comfortable operating on an unpaved road and dealing with ambiguity and complexity
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- In-office collaboration flexibility with 10+ days a month in office
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave policies
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages