Staff Software Engineer, AI Security

Robinhood

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Bellevue, WAMenlo Park, CA
Salary
$230,000–$270,000 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays more than 87% of similar roles. Most pay $167,540–$235,750 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $250k versus about $202k 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 50 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $196,000–$230,000 across 43 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, AI Security

Staff Software Engineer, AI Security joins the AI Security team to build a scalable, secure AI platform for developing and operating AI-powered agents and security solutions. This role involves designing and building foundational platform services, APIs, libraries, and SDKs while establishing security primitives like identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection controls. The engineer will develop reliable, large-scale distributed systems and platform guardrails to ensure safe AI adoption. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Go or Python and experience with cloud-native technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, and Kafka. The position focuses on solving complex engineering problems at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and security to create reusable platform capabilities that improve performance, reliability, and developer experience across the organization.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $207500 from 421 postings across 40 companies.

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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 large-scale distributed systems to support AI-powered security use cases.
  • Develop platform capabilities and guardrails to ensure teams can 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

  • 8+ years of software development experience.
  • 6+ 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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