# Senior Director, Security Engineering at Ripple

- Company: Ripple
- What the company does: Ripple is the leading provider of stablecoin-powered cross-border payments and digital asset custody solutions. Discover how we’re driving impact with blockchain. Backed by a16z, GV and 500 Global.
- Company website: https://ripple.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Washington, D.C., United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-07
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://ripple.com/careers/all-jobs/job/7913393?gh_jid=7913393
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ripple-senior-director-security-engineering-2/

## About the role

If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.

## What they're looking for

- Serve as a security domain expert, providing guidance and communicating security risks and concepts to senior leadership, engineering teams, and other partners
- Define guardrails around AI agents and tools operating within Ripple's environment, including scope boundaries, blast radius limits, and rollback mechanisms
- Implement and enforce agentic SDLC guardrails, testing gates, and human oversight of AI-assisted development workflows
- Lead, mentor, and strengthen a team of security engineers, cultivating an atmosphere that values technical excellence, continual learning, and innovation
- 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

Tags: Engineering