Lead the development of a scalable AI platform for security teams at Robinhood.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 2 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 2 hours ago
What you'll build
- Design and build a scalable AI platform
- Build foundational platform services, APIs, libraries, and SDKs
- Design secure systems with strong identity and data protection controls
- Build and operate reliable, large-scale distributed systems
- Identify opportunities to improve platform performance and security
Must have
- 8+ years of software development experience
- 6+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems
- Experience building AI platforms or production systems that support AI-powered applications
- Proficiency in Go or Python
- Strong understanding of security fundamentals
Practical constraints
- In-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week
Role intensity
40% coding
AI in the day-to-day
Robinhood uses AI tools to support parts of our recruiting process.
Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Staff Software Engineer for AI Security at Robinhood, the individual will focus on designing and building a scalable AI platform that enhances security capabilities across the organization. Key skills include extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems, security concepts, and proficiency in programming languages like Go or Python. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong background in AI infrastructure and a collaborative mindset, as they will work closely with various teams to ensure security is integrated from the ground up.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 8, 2026. Last confirmed on Robinhood's careers page October 8, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Security roles (median ~$170,000).
- Starts above 74% of 42 comparable staff security roles in United States that list Python we track (median $201,500 across 25 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 46.2% of 104 comparable staff security roles in United States; Kafka appears in 2.9% of 104 comparable staff security roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer, AI Security role remote?
- It's hybrid — Robinhood expects some on-site time in Menlo Park, CA, United States.
- What's the salary range?
- Robinhood lists $230,000–$270,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer, AI Security role.
- Where is the role based?
- Robinhood is hiring for this position in Menlo Park, CA, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Go, Kafka, Kubernetes, Python, gRPC.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Robinhood targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer, AI Security role at Robinhood.
From the original posting
Join us in building the future of finance.
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 Staff Software Engineer on the AI Security team, you’ll help lead and 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.
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
- Develop platform capabilities and guardrails that enable teams to safely build and operate AI agents
- Partner with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into reusable platform capabilities
- Identify opportunities to improve platform performance, developer experience, reliability, and security through automation
- Help shape the technical direction and architecture of Robinhood’s AI Security platform as the team and platform continue to grow
What you bring
- 8+ years of software development experience
- 6+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, with experience designing systems around security concepts such as 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
- Strong technical judgment and the ability to make thoughtful trade-offs across security, reliability, scalability, and developer experience
- Ability to solve complex engineering problems and collaborate effectively across security and engineering teams
What we offer
- Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching
- Top Tier benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
- Access to the Robinhood Employee Fund that gives eligible US employees the opportunity to invest in a private employee fund that provides exposure to Robinhood Ventures funds.
- Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee, technical or not.
- Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more
- Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits
- Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
In addition to the base pay range listed below, this role is also eligible for bonus opportunities + equity + benefits.
Base Pay Range:
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