Staff Security Engineer, Secure Digital Asset Operations

Ripple • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. Through crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, Ripple is improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity. As a Staff Security Engineer within the Secure Digital Asset Operations (SDAO) function, you will collaborate with leadership and cross-functional Finance, Product, and Engineering teams to secure Ripple’s digital assets. Your primary responsibility will be designing, implementing, managing, and optimizing processes and solutions in place to protect these assets.

Requirements

• 8+ years of industry experience in information securitysecuring digital assets, and a demonstrated knowledge of crypto/blockchain/web3/smart contracts.
• Strong knowledge of key management solutions, cryptography, and key management best practices that include the secure creation, distribution, storage, and usage of cryptographic keys.
• Hands-on experience setting up, configuring, and maintaining a variety of digital asset wallet solutions (Software, Hardware, MPC, and/or MultiSig Wallets) and secure offline laptop solutions.
• Experience handling sensitive work with discretion and professionalism, and demonstrated ability to become a trusted digital asset security advisor to the business.
• Clear and concise communicator/writer who can effectively communicate to varying levels of junior and senior stakeholders across different organizations, hold teams accountable, and can document and translate complex security and compliance topics into functional requirements.
• Comfortable operating on an unpaved road and dealing with ambiguity and complexity through effectively prioritizing and handling multiple assignments at a time.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, document, and manage processes to catalogue and secure the handling and storage of digital assets.
• Drive security risk assessments of digital asset safeguards to find opportunities for improvement, then collaborate with the Information Security team and cross-functional partners to design and implement those improvements.
• Develop effective methods to measure, supervise, and communicate security posture to key partners.
• Raise awareness among individuals and teams through educating them on how to secure both Ripple and personal digital assets effectively.
• Advise on digital asset security methodologies, tooling decisions, and vendor integrations to improve the security posture.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees