Staff Software Engineer (Security Platform)

As a Senior Software Engineer on the AI Security team, you will build a scalable and secure AI platform that enables security teams to develop and operate AI-powered agents and security solutions. You will work on complex engineering problems at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and security, and partner closely with security and engineering teams across Robinhood. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys building platforms, solving complex technical problems, and shaping the secure adoption of AI in security.

About Robinhood

Robinhood, a fast-paced and high-performing team focused on applying frontier technologies to solve significant financial problems.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Partner with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into reusable platform capabilities.

Requirements

• Experience building AI platforms, AI infrastructure, or production systems that support AI-powered applications or agents
• Ability to solve complex engineering problems and collaborate effectively across security and engineering teams
• Proficiency in Go or Python, with strong problem-solving and production debugging skills
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to make thoughtful trade-offs across security, reliability, scalability, and developer experience
• Proven experience delivering large engineering projects with meaningful, long-term impact
• Strong understanding of security fundamentals and experience incorporating security into the design of production systems

5+ years of software development experience

• Experience designing and building reusable platform capabilities, APIs, libraries, or developer tooling
• 3+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, with experience designing systems around security concepts such as authentication, authorization, identity, or encryption
• Experience with cloud-native platforms and distributed systems technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, or Kafka

Pay

USD 196,000 - 230,000