Senior Security Engineer (Security Offices)

The preferred location for this position is in or around New York, NY, Seattle, WA or Menlo Park, CA

About the role

Robinhood’s Security Offices is looking for a security engineer to help support the Brokerage and Say Technologies Product Security functions. The Security Office works with teams across Robinhood businesses to ensure our products and services are secure and our customer’s data is protected. You will be customer focused and reduce friction for users in applying security and privacy features and ensure they get the timely education to protect themselves, their data, and their money. You will aid in influencing business decisions by providing results and analysis from security assessments. You will also collaborate with other teams to ensure that we have appropriate security detections in place for our Brokerage & Say business entities. This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA or New York, NY office, dependent on applicant’s location.

We’re looking for tech professionals who are deeply passionate about security and privacy.

Your day-to-day may involve:

• Assist with proactive assessments covering infrastructure, secure and resilient architecture, data security (including privacy), identity and access management, application and product security
• Prioritize and drive the reduction of discovered security issues, vulnerabilities, and risks by partnering with the business to provide recommendations and solutions
• Work with technical leads to develop strategies, programs, systems and tools that enhance our approach in keeping our users and employees safe and secure
• Collaborate with sister security teams to help safeguard Robinhood’s data and infrastructure
• Provide technical expertise on Robinhood’s Security and Privacy’s solutions, policies, procedures, and standards
• Stay up to date on the direction of emerging security and privacy industry trends

Some things we consider critical for this role:

• 4+ years of experience conducting cyber security assessments
• 3+ years of experience engineering security solutions
• Security domain knowledge across many cyber security disciplines
• Experience Threat Modeling applications 
• Outside-the-box thinking (adversary mentality)
• Experience communicating effectively with technical/non-technical and executive-level audiences
• Working knowledge of Go or Python for interacting with security tooling APIs
• Security automation experience is a plus
• Security technical report writing is a plus
• AWS experience is a plus
• Pentesting experience is a plus

The expected salary range for this role is based on the location where the work will be performed and is aligned to one of 3 compensation zones. This role is also eligible to participate in a Robinhood bonus plan and Robinhood’s equity plan.

US Zone 1: $187000 - $220000
US Zone 2: $165000 - $194000
US Zone 3: $146000 - $172000