Staff Offensive Security Engineer

As a Staff Offensive Security Engineer at Robinhood, you will lead the Red Team's mission to identify and reduce real-world security risks by simulating adversary behavior and testing defenses across the company. You'll plan and execute security assessments across applications, infrastructure, and physical environments, partner closely with engineering and security teams to strengthen detection and response capabilities, and develop tools and techniques that improve how we test and secure our systems. Your work will directly support the safety and reliability of products used by millions of customers.

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

What you'll do

• Evangelize the Offensive Security Team's findings and projects with stakeholders throughout the company and collaborate with other teams to create solutions that balance security with other priorities
• Mentor and provide guidance to members of the Offensive Security team
• Plan and execute red team exercises, including long-term assessments that simulate real-world attack scenarios
• Perform threat modeling and penetration testing across applications, infrastructure, and corporate environments
• Develop scripts and tools to support and automate security testing activities
• Partner with detection and response teams to run adversarial simulations and improve incident readiness
• Communicate findings clearly and work with engineering teams to remediate identified risks
• Lead security incidents when pentest or red team findings require them
• Plan and participate in adversarial simulation exercises with various security teams

What you bring

• 8+ years of experience conducting red team operations or advanced penetration testing
• Experience mentoring or supporting the development of other security engineers
• Demonstrated passion for challenging security assumptions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate your findings at many different levels of abstraction, from engineers to executives
• Passion for fixing security issues, not just identifying them
• Familiarity with common network protocols and standards such as DNS and TCP/IP
• Experience with MacOS and Linux
• Experience leveraging components of a modern software development stack to attack companies, including CI, container orchestration systems (Kubernetes/Docker), cloud providers (AWS, GCP), and ability to give hardening suggestions
• Experience and knowledge of defensive tools and techniques (IDS/IPS, Packet Capture, Network Analysis, AV, EDR, etc.) and how to evade them
• Deep understanding of MITRE's ATT&CK Framework
• Strong understanding of the security fundamentals of access and identity
• Comfortable reading and writing Python, Go, and JavaScript
• Ability to research and execute a testing plan to access a new technology or process
• Demonstrated experience working with a distributed team
• Proficiency to communicate over text-based mediums (Slack, JIRA, GitHub, email) and ability to succinctly document technical details

Nice to have

• Experience in the Financial Technology domain
• Experience as a technical lead at other organizations

What we offer

• Market competitive and pay equity-focused compensation structure
• 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
• Annual lifestyle wallet for personal wellness, learning and development, and more
• Lifetime maximum benefit for family forming and fertility benefits
• Dedicated mental health support for employees and eligible dependents
• Generous time away including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more
• Lively office environment with catered meals, fully stocked kitchens, and geo-specific commuter benefits
• Bonus opportunities and equity in addition to base pay
• Base pay range (varies by location): Zone 1 (Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; Bellevue, WA; Washington, DC) $217,000-$255,000 USD; Zone 2 (Denver, CO; Westlake, TX; Chicago, IL) $190,000-$224,000 USD; Zone 3 (Lake Mary, FL; Clearwater, FL; Gainesville, FL) $169,000-$199,000 USD

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 a strong focus on security and ethics in everything it builds.