Robinhood

Staff Offensive Security Engineer

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2 months ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Plan and execute red team operations, adversarial simulations, and penetration tests across applications, infrastructure, networks, offices, and internal processes.
  • Perform threat modeling for new and existing services and communicate security risks and tradeoffs to engineering and risk stakeholders.
  • Conduct vulnerability research, exploit development, and testing using custom tooling and public proof-of-concept techniques.
  • Partner with detection and response teams to simulate realistic attacks and evaluate monitoring and incident response readiness.
  • Write and maintain tooling to automate and scale offensive security assessments.
  • Document findings, recommend remediation strategies, and support teams through fixes.
  • Mentor teammates and contribute to internal documentation, presentations, external talks, or blog posts.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of hands-on experience in red teaming, offensive security, or penetration testing.
  • Demonstrated experience mentoring or guiding other security engineers.
  • Strong understanding of threat modeling methodologies and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
  • Experience testing cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP, containerized systems such as Docker and Kubernetes, CI pipelines, and identity systems.
  • Working knowledge of IDS/IPS, EDR, packet capture, network monitoring, and common evasion techniques.
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, or JavaScript for exploit development, tooling, or automation.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills for explaining technical findings to engineers and senior leaders.
  • Experience collaborating with distributed teams and documenting work through Slack, Jira, GitHub, and email.
  • Experience in financial technology or regulated environments is preferred.
  • Prior experience serving as a technical lead on security initiatives is preferred.

Benefits

  • Performance-driven compensation with bonus programs and equity ownership.
  • Supplemental health, ancillary insurance, and mental health support programs.
  • Flexible employer-paid lifestyle wallet for wellness, childcare, learning, and other expenses.
  • Company holidays, paid time off, sick time, paid volunteer time off, and parental leave.
  • Catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
  • Monthly commuter stipend.
  • Based in the Toronto, Canada office with in-person attendance expected at least three days per week.
Robinhood

About Robinhood

1,001-5,000 employees

Robinhood builds a mobile-first brokerage and cash management platform for retail investors to trade stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies, plus IRAs and a cash card. It makes money through interest on cash and margin, payment for order flow, crypto trading fees, and subscriptions like Robinhood Gold. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Robinhood Markets is a public company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker HOOD.

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