Ripple
Senior Security Engineer
$172K–$215K
San Francisco, CA, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response.
About the job
Build and improve Ripple’s security detections, incident response, data pipelines, and automation to help identify and mitigate threats.
What you'll do
- Design and tune detections, and lead high-severity incident investigations through remediation.
- Build security automation and maintain SIEM/data pipeline health, including log coverage, parsing, and alert quality.
- Improve detection and response practices, collaborate across teams, and mentor less experienced engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response, with end-to-end ownership of incident response and detection work.
- Advanced knowledge of security operations principles, tools, and practices for detection and response.
- Strong Python or SOAR automation skills, including REST APIs; experience with SIEM platforms and security data pipelines.
- Hands-on ability to extend and tune EDR, identity, email security, and network security tools.
Pay
$172,000 — $215,000 USD (CA annual base salary range)
Tools
Google Security Operations, Tines, Python, SOAR, REST APIs, EDR, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex
AI focus
Use agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or OpenAI Codex for detection engineering and automation, selecting appropriate tools and verifying outputs before release.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative