Ripple
Senior Staff Security Engineer, Product Security
$220K–$300K
Chicago, Illinois, United States · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 10, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of Security Engineering experience, including hands-on Product Security and Infrastructure Security.
About the job
Leads product and infrastructure security for Ripple Treasury, shaping secure architecture, software delivery, cloud controls, and vulnerability remediation.
What you'll do
- Own Treasury’s security posture, lead threat modeling and architecture reviews, and drive cloud security across Azure and AWS.
- Define secure development guardrails and CI/CD integrations; manage vulnerability discovery, prioritization, remediation, and validation.
- Partner with GRC on compliance, build a Security Champions model, influence architecture decisions, and mentor Security Engineers.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of Security Engineering experience, including hands-on Product Security and Infrastructure Security.
- Expertise in product security, including threat modeling, security architecture, API security, authentication and authorization, and secure SDLC.
- Deep cloud security expertise across Azure, AWS, and/or GCP, including IAM, network security, secrets, containers/Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
- Hands-on DevSecOps tooling experience and strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, or equivalent; experience with cryptographic principles and key management.
Nice to have
- Background in FinTech, crypto, blockchain, or high-stakes financial environments.
Pay
$220,000 — $300,000 USD (base salary; IL annual range)
Tools
Azure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Python, Go, STRIDE, OWASP Top 10
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