Senior Software Engineer, AI Security

Robinhood

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Menlo Park, CABellevue, WA
Salary
$196,000–$230,000 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Above market

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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 53 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $196,000–$230,000 across 53 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, AI Security

Senior Software Engineer, AI Security joins the AI Security team to build a scalable and secure AI platform for developing and operating AI-powered agents and security solutions. This role involves designing foundational platform services, APIs, libraries, and SDKs while establishing security primitives such as identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection controls. You will build and operate large-scale distributed systems and develop platform guardrails to ensure safe AI adoption. The position requires proficiency in Go or Python and experience with cloud-native technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, and Kafka. You will solve complex engineering problems at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and security, translating requirements from security and infrastructure teams into reusable platform capabilities to improve performance, reliability, and developer experience.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build a scalable AI platform for developing and operating AI-powered security agents.
  • Build foundational platform services, APIs, libraries, and SDKs to integrate AI into security workflows.
  • Design secure systems featuring robust identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection controls.
  • Build and operate reliable, large-scale distributed systems to support AI-powered security use cases.
  • Develop platform capabilities and guardrails to enable teams to safely build and operate AI agents.
  • Translate requirements from security and infrastructure teams into reusable platform capabilities.
  • Improve platform performance, reliability, and developer experience through automation.
  • Shape the technical direction and architecture of the 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, AI infrastructure, or production systems that support AI-powered applications or agents.
  • Proficiency in Go or Python with strong problem-solving and production debugging skills.
  • Experience with cloud-native platforms and distributed systems 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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