Staff Security Engineer
Twilio
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This role pays more than 85% of similar roles. Most pay $159,400–$217,625 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $236k versus about $189k for comparable roles.
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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 35 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $196,000–$230,000 across 35 roles with salary data.
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Staff Security Engineer, Detection & Response joins the Security Operations team to protect the platform from real-time threats through advanced detection frameworks and AI-driven automation. In this role, you will lead high-pressure incident response workstreams, manage a global detection catalog across cloud and Kubernetes environments, and architect an Autonomic Security Operations roadmap featuring agentic AI workflows. You will be responsible for building automated issue discovery systems, mentoring engineers to foster technical excellence, and performing deep code analysis across multi-language codebases to identify vulnerabilities. The role requires expertise in SOAR playbooks, detection engineering pipelines, and infrastructure security. This position addresses the challenge of securing a complex financial ecosystem by integrating AI technologies to eliminate operational noise and enhance response capabilities against evolving threats within a high-growth environment.
What does a Security Engineer earn in California?
Median $196000 from 31 postings across 16 companies.
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