Staff Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security

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

About the team:

Robinhood's InfraSec Team is looking for an experienced Staff Security Engineer with a deep background in distributed systems and secure development to help build out and mentor our team. The team comprises individuals who are deeply passionate about security and engineering. You should be too. In this role you’ll have direct responsibility for keeping our customers and our company safe.

What you’ll do day-to-day:

• Design infrastructure and drive its implementation to protect Robinhood systems.
• Provide security expertise and guidance to a diverse set of Robinhood engineering and business teams.
• Conduct security reviews of core corporate and production infrastructure.
• Drive enterprise focused security improvements to Robinhood products and services.
• Help drive secure by default paradigm into Robinhood’s engineering processes.
• Build security tools and processes using Python or Go for critical infrastructure protection, monitoring and remediation.

About you:

• 7+ years of relevant proven experience in security.
• Coding experience in Python or Go
• Experience working in large scale AWS or similar cloud environments.
• Experience with attacks and mitigation methods, with experience working in two or more of the following: Network protocols and secure network design; Operating system internals and hardening (e.g. Windows, Linux, OS X, Android); Web application and browser security; Security assessments and penetration testing; Authentication and access control; Applied cryptography and security protocols; Security monitoring and intrusion detection, Incident response and forensics; Development of security tools, automation or frameworks.

Bonus points:

• Previous experience at a high growth company in the FinTech space
• Hands-on experience managing large scale infrastructure
• Experience with Kubernetes.

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: $217000 - $255000
US Zone 2: $190000 - $224000
US Zone 3: $169000 - $199000