Robinhood

Senior Software Engineer, AI Security

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5 hours ago
Bellevue, WA, USA or Menlo Park, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$153k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build a scalable AI platform for developing, deploying, and operating AI-powered security agents and capabilities.
  • Build foundational platform services, APIs, libraries, SDKs, guardrails, and developer tooling for AI security workflows.
  • Design secure systems with identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection controls.
  • Build and operate reliable large-scale distributed systems supporting AI-powered security use cases.
  • Partner with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to translate needs into reusable platform capabilities.
  • Improve platform performance, developer experience, reliability, and security through automation.
  • Help shape the architecture and technical direction of the AI Security platform.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software development experience.
  • 3+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems with security concepts such as authentication, authorization, identity, or encryption.
  • Experience building AI platforms, AI infrastructure, or production systems supporting AI-powered applications or agents.
  • Proficiency in Go or Python, with strong problem-solving and production debugging skills.
  • Experience with cloud-native platforms and distributed systems technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, or Kafka.
  • Strong understanding of security fundamentals and experience incorporating security into production system design.
  • Experience building reusable platform capabilities, APIs, libraries, or developer tooling.
  • Proven experience delivering large engineering projects with meaningful, long-term impact.
  • Strong technical judgment and ability to balance security, reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
  • Ability to solve complex engineering problems and collaborate across security and engineering teams.

Benefits

  • Performance-driven compensation with bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
  • 100% paid employee health insurance with 90% dependent coverage, plus life, disability, fertility, and mental health benefits.
  • Access to the Robinhood Employee Fund for eligible US employees.
  • Access to AI tools and continuous AI skill-building.
  • Flexible lifestyle wallet for wellness, learning, and other expenses.
  • Company holidays, paid time off, sick time, and parental leave.
  • Catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
  • Role is based in Menlo Park, California or Bellevue, Washington, with in-person attendance expected at least three days per week.
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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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