Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Staff Software Engineer in Security at Robinhood is responsible for designing and developing systems that manage authentication and authorization for both internal and customer-facing applications. This role requires expertise in identity and access management, strong programming skills in languages like Go or Python, and experience with distributed systems. Ideal candidates have over eight years of experience in backend or security systems and are comfortable guiding technical decisions while mentoring other engineers. Robinhood emphasizes a collaborative office environment, fostering innovation and community among its high-performing teams.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 3 months ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Robinhood's career page.
- Robinhood has 141 other open roles including Senior Staff Software Developer, Core Infrastructure, Senior Applications Engineer, Enterprise Build, Senior Product Designer, DeFi.
- 2641 active Python roles on Joblaze right now.
- 1181 active AWS roles on Joblaze right now.
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- Salary band is above the typical range for Security roles (median ~$166,000).
- Pays more than 87% of the 1568 salaried Python roles we track (median $160,000). See Python salary trends
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management role remote?
- It's hybrid — Robinhood expects some on-site time in Bellevue, WA; Menlo Park, CA.
- 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, Identity & Access Management role.
- Where is the role based?
- Robinhood is hiring for this position in Bellevue, WA; Menlo Park, CA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Go, Kubernetes, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Python.
- 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, Identity & Access Management role at Robinhood.
From the original posting
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 Role + Team
The Security Engineering team builds the identity and access control plane governing how employees, services, and agentic workloads access Robinhood’s critical infrastructure. We are a platform-building engineering team focused on creating secure, frictionless, and automated self-service access systems at scale.
As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you will shape Robinhood’s foundational identity architecture, define technical strategy, and build Tier-0 access infrastructure used across the entire company! From solving complex authentication and authorization challenges to setting secure guardrails for emerging AI and agentic workflows, your technical leadership will directly impact every product team at Robinhood!
What You'll Do
- Access Control Plane Architecture: Define and build the core technical architecture for managing employee, service, non-human, and agentic access across company-wide resources
- Tier-0 Platform Engineering: Design, build, and operate highly available, resilient, and observable backend identity infrastructure using Go, Python, Rust, or comparable systems languages.
- AuthN & AuthZ Solutions: Implement modern identity protocols and access frameworks (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, RBAC, ABAC, and policy-based access controls).
- AI & Agentic Access Governance: Develop secure access patterns, identity frameworks, governance, and observability guardrails for AI agents, LLM applications, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) systems.
- Self-Service Developer Experience: Create automated, developer-friendly platforms that allow teams to request, approve, provision, and audit access without manual security operations friction.
- Leadership: Set technical direction, author key architectural proposals, mentor engineers across the org, and partner closely with Infrastructure, Data, and Security teams.
What You'll Need
- 8+ years of backend engineering or security platform engineering experience, with a focus on building systems at scale.
- Platform-Builder Expertise: Demonstrated experience designing and building security platforms, access management control planes, or identity infrastructure from the ground up (rather than security operations or third-party tool administration).
- Identity Domain Depth: Strong understanding of core identity primitives, least-privilege access, and protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, or WebAuthn.
- Modern Auth Models: Experience implementing role-based, policy-based, or attribute-based access control models across human and machine workloads.
- AI / Non-Human Workload Exposure: Experience or strong foundational capability in defining security guardrails, access policies, or governance models for AI agents, LLMs, or non-human workloads.
- Systems Architecture: Experience operating and maintaining high-availability, high-throughput Tier-0 infrastructure in cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes).
- Strategic Influence: Proven track record of technical ownership, cross-functional alignment without authority, and driving multi-team initiatives to completion.
Bonus Points
- Background in cryptography, PKI, and certificate lifecycle management.
- Experience implementing zero-trust architectural models.
- Prior experience building identity or authorization platforms within high-growth technology environments.
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.
- Best-in-class benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents.
- 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 for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. The expected base pay range for this role is based on the location where the work will be performed and is aligned to one of 3 compensation zones. For other locations not listed, compensation can be discussed with your recruiter during the interview process.
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