Staff Security Engineer

Ripple; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ripple is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join our Security Operations team. You will design, implement, and tune detections, lead the most complex investigations, and build automation to scale security workflows across our environment.

You will own SIEM pipelines and collaborate with detection engineers and developers, applying AI-assisted tooling while safeguarding alert quality and response integrity.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response with end-to-end ownership.
• Advanced knowledge of blue team practices and scripting for automation.
• Experience with SIEM platforms and security data pipelines, including log onboarding and alert tuning.
• Hands-on experience with EDR, identity, email security, and network security tooling.
• Ability to write clear technical specs and reason about trade-offs.
• Ability to break down complex projects into simple, repeatable processes and to give feedback in design reviews.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and tune detections across the security stack to improve threat identification and mitigation.
• Lead incident response for the most complex investigations from triage through remediation.
• Build and maintain security automation workflows that reduce manual toil in detection, triage, and response.
• Own and improve SIEM/data pipeline health, including log source coverage, parsing, normalization, and alert quality.
• Develop cross-functional relationships to influence security initiatives and drive adoption of security tooling.
• Maintain awareness of evolving threat landscape and translate to concrete improvements to detection coverage and playbooks.
• Use AI tools as more than a chatbot - agentic coding tools for detection engineering and automation work, while verifying output.
• Participate in design reviews, breaking complex challenges into simple systems that others can build and maintain.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

Detection engineering

Scripting

SIEM

EDR / Identity / Network security

Technical specs

Project breakdown

Coaching & feedback

Tools

Google SecOps

Tines

Claude Code

OpenAI Codex

Job description

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 on the Security Operations team, you will help Ripple detect, investigate, and respond to security threats across our environment. You'll work across detection and data engineering, incident response, and security automation - building the tooling and detection logic that lets the team scale. You'll operate independently on sophisticated investigations and detection initiatives, and you'll be a technical reference point for less senior engineers on the team.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Design, build, and tune detections across our security stack (Google Security Operations) to improve our ability to identify and mitigate threats.
• Lead incident response for the most complex and high-severity investigations, from initial triage through root cause and remediation.
• Build and maintain security automation workflows (e.g., in Tines) that reduce manual toil in detection, triage, and response.
• Own and improve SIEM/data pipeline health, including log source coverage, parsing/normalization, and alert quality.
• Develop cross-functional relationships to influence security initiatives and drive adoption of security tooling.
• Maintain awareness of the evolving threat landscape and translate that awareness into concrete improvements to our detection coverage and response playbooks.
• Use AI tools as more than a chatbot - agentic coding tools like Claude Code or OpenAI Codex for detection engineering and automation work - while knowing when a given tool is (and isn't) the right fit, and verifying output before it ships.
• Participate in the design review process, giving and receiving constructive feedback to keep detection and automation projects on track - and break complex detection challenges into simple systems and repeatable processes other engineers can build and maintain.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• 7+ years of experience in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response, with a track record of owning incident response and detection work end-to-end.
• Advanced knowledge of security principles, tools, and practices used in blue teaming operations, with advanced proficiency in at least one scripting language for tasks like response automation and using REST APIs to automate security operations work.
• Experience with SIEM platforms and security data pipelines (e.g., Google SecOps) - you understand log source onboarding, parsing, and alert tuning, not just querying.
• Hands-on experience with EDR, identity, email security, and network security tooling at a level where you can extend and tune the tooling, not just operate it.
• Ability to write clean technical specs, identify risks before starting major projects, and reason clearly about trade-offs between alternative approaches.
• Ability to break down complex projects into simple systems and repeatable processes that other engineers can build and maintain, and to seek and give constructive feedback in design review.
• Problem-solving skills to resolve ambiguous or high-pressure situations effectively and creatively, while maintaining flexibility, professionalism, and integrity.
• Understands and anticipates people's needs, skills, and abilities, to coach, motivate, and empower them for success.

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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