Senior Director, AI Security Engineering

P2P; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Healthcare and retirement benefits

Parental leave

Wellness programs

Catered meals

Job summary

Ripple is seeking a Senior Director of Security Engineering to build and lead a dedicated team securing Ripple's products, infrastructure, and IT systems. You will define security strategy, drive AI security guardrails, and ensure secure development across the organization.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and IT leadership, and own the vulnerability management program while advancing a culture of security and technical excellence across the company.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in security engineering, with at least 5+ years in a leadership or management role, preferably in the crypto, blockchain, or FinTech space.
• Hands-on expertise in AI security: a clear understanding of the risk surface introduced by LLMs, AI agents, and AI-assisted development workflows, and how to build guardrails around them.
• Expert-level knowledge of security architecture, including cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), modern application stacks, and network security.
• Strong understanding of cryptographic principles, secure coding practices, and common web and blockchain vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10).
• Experience with authentication and authorization standards (OAuth, SAML, OIDC) and their security implications.
• Demonstrated expertise in IT security, including endpoint protection, network security, identity and access management (IAM), and corporate security policy enforcement.
• Hands-on experience with threat modeling methodologies and risk identification techniques.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts and security risks to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A track record of fostering a positive security culture within an organization and proven experience leading and building a high-performing security team.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to effectively and creatively manage complex security challenges.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategic vision and roadmap for the Security Engineering team, focusing on product security, infrastructure security, and IT security, with a particular focus on AI security, including agentic guardrails and AI-assisted development risk.
• 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.
• Own the vulnerability management program, including coordinating penetration testing, prioritizing remediation, and partnering with engineering teams to close risk at pace.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and IT leadership to ensure alignment on security priorities and to champion security outcomes on behalf of our customers.

Skills

Security engineering

AI security

Cloud security

Leadership

Threat modeling

Communication

Tools

OAuth

SAML

OIDC

Job description

Ripple is seeking a Senior Director of Security Engineering to build and lead a dedicated team securing Ripple's products, infrastructure, and IT systems. You will define security strategy, drive AI security guardrails, and ensure secure development across the organization.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and IT leadership, and own the vulnerability management program while advancing a culture of security and technical excellence across the company.