Senior Staff Security Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own the technical creation and execution of Robinhood’s Security Operations AI roadmap for offensive and defensive operations.
• Lead offensive security research involving red teaming, penetration testing, application security, and attack-surface reduction.
• Architect and build intelligent defensive systems that detect, deceive, and track sophisticated and AI-powered threat actors.
• Drive an AI-forward security strategy and develop synthetic-workforce capabilities for Security Operations.
• Identify emerging threat-actor motivations and attack patterns, particularly in AI-related threats, and translate intelligence into defensive architectures.
• Set technical standards and mentor security engineers across Security Operations.

Requirements

• 12+ years of security engineering experience across offensive security and defensive security disciplines.
• Demonstrated success implementing AI-driven improvements in Security Operations beyond chatbot use cases.
• Technical leadership at the Senior Staff, Principal, or Distinguished level with organization-wide or company-wide security impact.
• Deep application security expertise and the ability to work as both a security engineer and software engineer.
• Strong experience with threat detection, incident response, detection engineering, and security operations.
• Informed perspective on how AI changes security attack surfaces and defensive capabilities.
• Proficiency with cloud infrastructure security, preferably AWS, telemetry and observability tooling, and large-scale detection pipelines.
• Exceptional technical communication skills for executive briefings and detailed engineering collaboration.
• OSCP, GREM, GXPN, or equivalent security certifications are preferred.

Benefits

• Performance-driven compensation with bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
• 100% paid employee health insurance and 90% dependent coverage, plus life and disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
• Employee Fund access for eligible US employees, lifestyle wallet, paid holidays, paid time off, sick time, and parental leave.
• Catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces in the office.
• Based in Menlo Park, New York City, or Bellevue, with in-person attendance required at least three days per week.