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 focusing on anti-abuse and brand protection, you will lead the design and development of systems and automation to detect, mitigate, and prevent abuse targeting Ripple’s brand, products, and users. This includes identifying phishing campaigns, impersonation attempts, scam tokens, fake domains, and social engineering campaigns across web, mobile, and social platforms. You will collaborate closely with Legal, Communications, Threat Intelligence, and third-party vendors to build a scalable and proactive anti-abuse capability.
What you’ll do:
- Detect brand abuse and scams: Develop systems to identify impersonation, phishing, scam tokens, and other threats targeting Ripple’s brand and users.
- Automate takedowns: Build tooling and workflows to streamline abuse reporting, enforcement, and takedown actions across vendors and platforms.
- Analyze abuse patterns: Investigate attacker infrastructure and abuse trends to advise proactive defenses.
- Develop internal visibility tools: Create dashboards and alerts to supervise brand abuse, takedown success rates, and emerging threats.
- Lead incident response: Drive investigations for sophisticated abuse cases and help implement long-term preventative measures.
- Guide strategy: Advise on anti-abuse standard methodologies, tooling decisions, and vendor integrations to improve Ripple’s external security posture.
What you’ll bring:
- 8+ years of experience working within a security, abuse prevention, or threat detection domain, ideally with exposure to large-scale platforms, FinTech, or crypto environments.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages for building automation and detection systems.
- Experience investigating scams, phishing, impersonation, or abuse at scale – ideally in FinTech, crypto, or social platforms.
- Ability to analyze abuse trends, extract insights, and drive detection improvements through data.
- Familiarity with abuse reporting and enforcement APIs (e.g., Google Web Risk, social platforms, domain registrars).
- Strong communication skills and an ability to tailor them to various technical/non-technical audiences.
- Passion for stopping bad actors and building trust in crypto ecosystems.
- Above all, a teammate that can handle ambitious situations, a rapidly maturing security culture, and an eagerness to mentor less expert engineers
For positions that will be based in NY, the annual salary range for this position is below. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant’s experience and qualifications for the position. This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions.
NY Annual Base Salary Range
$184,000—$206,999 USD
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.
