Senior Software Engineer, AI Security
Robinhood · Bellevue, WA; Menlo Park, CA
About this role
**Join us in building the future of finance.** Our mission is to democratize finance for all. We’re building an elite team applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems—where ethics are at the center of everything we do. **About the team + role** We’re building a scalable and secure AI platform that enables security teams across Robinhood to develop and operate AI-powered agents and security solutions with confidence. As a **Senior Software Engineer on the AI Security team**, you’ll help build the foundational platform, infrastructure, and security primitives that make it easier for teams to develop AI-powered security capabilities at scale. You’ll work on complex engineering problems at the intersection of **AI, distributed systems, and security**, with a particular focus on **identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and platform safety**. This is a **hands-on engineering role** for someone who enjoys building platforms, solving complex technical problems, and helping shape how AI is securely adopted across security. **Location** Based in **Menlo Park, CA** and **Bellevue, WA** offices, with **in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week**. --- ## 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 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 for 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 translate needs 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 grows ## What you bring - **5+ years** of software development experience - **3+ years** building large-scale distributed systems, including security-focused design (authentication, authorization, identity, encryption) - Experience building AI platforms, AI infrastructure, or production systems supporting AI-powered applications/agents - Proficiency in **Go or Python**, with strong problem-solving and production debugging skills - Experience with cloud-native platforms and distributed systems (e.g., **AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, Kafka**) - Strong understanding of security fundamentals and experience incorporating security into production system design - Experience building reusable platform capabilities (APIs, libraries, developer tooling) - Proven experience delivering large engineering projects with meaningful, long-term impact - Strong technical judgment and ability to make trade-offs across security, reliability, scalability, and developer experience - Ability to solve complex engineering problems and collaborate effectively across teams --- ## What we offer - Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career - Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and **401(k) matching** - Top-tier benefits, including **100% paid health insurance for employees** (90% coverage
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