Senior Software Engineer, AI Security

Robinhood

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Menlo Park, CABellevue, WA
Salary
$196,000–$230,000 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $178k
This role $213k
$116k most similar roles pay here $243k

This role pays more than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $149,875–$206,450 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $213k versus about $178k for comparable roles.

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About Robinhood

Robinhood is a financial technology company offering commission-free stock, ETF, options, and cryptocurrency trading through its mobile app, aimed at democratizing access to financial markets. Industry: Financial Technology & Investment App

Robinhood currently has 42 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $196,000–$230,000 across 39 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, AI Security

As a Senior Software Engineer, AI Security, you will join the AI Security team to build a scalable platform, infrastructure, and security primitives that enable internal teams to develop and operate AI-powered agents and security solutions. You will design and build foundational services, APIs, libraries, and SDKs while ensuring robust identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection controls are integrated into the architecture. The role involves solving complex engineering problems at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and security to create safe guardrails for AI adoption. You will utilize Go or Python to develop large-scale distributed systems on cloud-native platforms including AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, and Kafka. Your work focuses on creating reusable platform capabilities and tools that improve developer experience while ensuring high reliability and performance across the organization's security infrastructure.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build a scalable AI platform to enable security teams to deploy AI-powered agents and capabilities.
  • Develop foundational services, APIs, libraries, and SDKs to simplify AI integration into security workflows.
  • Implement robust security primitives including identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection controls.
  • Build and operate large-scale distributed systems to support high-volume AI-powered security use cases.
  • Create platform guardrails that allow internal teams to safely develop and operate AI agents.
  • Translate requirements from cross-functional teams into reusable platform capabilities and infrastructure.
  • Improve platform performance, reliability, and developer experience through automation and technical optimization.
  • Define the technical architecture and roadmap for the company's growing AI Security platform.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of software development experience.
  • 3+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems with security concepts like authentication, authorization, identity, or encryption.
  • Experience building AI platforms, infrastructure, or production systems supporting AI-powered applications or agents.
  • Proficiency in Go or Python with strong problem-solving and production debugging skills.
  • Experience with cloud-native platforms and technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, or Kafka.
  • Strong understanding of security fundamentals and experience incorporating security into the design of production systems.
  • Experience designing and building reusable platform capabilities, APIs, libraries, or developer tooling.
  • Proven experience delivering large engineering projects with meaningful, long-term impact.

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