Senior Software Engineer, AI Security

As a Senior Software Engineer on the AI Security team at Robinhood, you'll help build the foundational platform, infrastructure, and security primitives that enable security teams across the company to develop and operate AI-powered agents and security solutions with confidence. You'll work on complex engineering problems at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and security, with a focus on identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and platform safety.

What you'll do

• Design and build a scalable AI platform that enables security teams to develop, deploy, and operate AI-powered agents and security capabilities
• Build foundational platform services, APIs, libraries, and SDKs that make it easier for teams to integrate AI into security workflows
• Design secure systems with strong identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection controls
• Build and operate reliable, large-scale distributed systems that support AI-powered security use cases
• Develop platform capabilities and guardrails that enable teams to safely build and operate AI agents
• Partner with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into reusable platform capabilities
• Identify opportunities to improve platform performance, developer experience, reliability, and security through automation
• Help shape the technical direction and architecture of Robinhood's AI Security platform as the team and platform grow

What you bring

• 5+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, with experience designing systems around security concepts such as authentication, authorization, identity, or encryption
• Experience building AI platforms, AI infrastructure, or production systems that support 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 the design of production systems
• Experience designing and building reusable platform capabilities, APIs, libraries, or developer tooling
• Proven experience delivering large engineering projects with meaningful, long-term impact
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to make thoughtful trade-offs across security, reliability, scalability, and developer experience
• Ability to solve complex engineering problems and collaborate effectively across security and engineering teams

What we offer

• Base pay of $196,000-$230,000 USD (Zone 1: Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; Bellevue, WA; Washington, DC), $172,000-$202,000 USD (Zone 2: Denver, CO; Westlake, TX; Chicago, IL), or $153,000-$179,000 USD (Zone 3: Lake Mary, FL; Clearwater, FL; Gainesville, FL), depending on location
• Bonus opportunities and equity ownership
• 401(k) matching
• 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits
• Access to the Robinhood Employee Fund for eligible US employees to invest in a private employee fund with exposure to Robinhood Ventures funds
• Access to leading AI tools and continuous AI skill-building for all employees
• Lifestyle wallet, a flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more
• Company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more
• Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces

This role is based in the Menlo Park, CA or Bellevue, WA office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week.

About Robinhood

Robinhood's mission is to democratize finance for all. The company is building an elite team applying frontier technologies to solve the world's biggest financial problems, with ethics at the center of everything it does.