Senior Software Engineer, AI Security
Builds the foundational AI security platform at Robinhood: scalable platform services, APIs, SDKs, and guardrails that let security teams develop and run AI-powered agents safely, with focus on identity, authentication, encryption, and large-scale distributed systems. Hands-on engineering in Go or Python on AWS/Kubernetes.
- Compensation
- $196K–$230K / yr
- Location
- Bellevue, WA; Menlo Park, CA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of software development experience
- 3+ years building large-scale distributed systems, including designing systems around security concepts (authentication, authorization, identity, or encryption)
- Experience building AI platforms, AI 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 distributed systems technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, or Kafka
- Strong understanding of security fundamentals and incorporating security into production system design
- Experience designing and building reusable platform capabilities, APIs, libraries, or developer tooling
- Proven experience delivering large engineering projects with meaningful, long-term impact
- Strong technical judgment and ability to make thoughtful trade-offs across security, reliability, scalability, and developer experience
- Ability to solve complex engineering problems and collaborate across security and engineering teams
- Based in Menlo Park, CA or Bellevue, WA office with in-person attendance at least 3 days per week
Full description
Join us in building the future of finance.
Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading.
About the team + role
We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.
The mission of our team is to build 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 areas such as identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and platform safety.
You’ll partner closely with security and engineering teams across Robinhood to create systems that make AI development easier while ensuring security is built into the platform from the start. 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.
This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA and Bellevue, WA office(s), with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week.
At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.
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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 that make it easier for teams 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 that support AI-powered security use cases