Robinhood
Security Engineer, Application Security
About this role
Join Robinhood's Product and Application Security team to design and implement systems that embed security practices into the development lifecycle. You'll work with engineering teams to build guardrails, review designs, and create practical tools that help developers code securely at scale.
What you'll do
- Design and build systems to help engineers identify and address security risks early in development
- Partner with product and engineering teams on design reviews, threat modeling, and secure implementation guidance
- Develop and maintain security guardrails including shared libraries, frameworks, and automated checks
- Contribute to AI security governance and automated secure design review programs
- Improve adoption of secure development patterns through documentation and reusable tools
What they're looking for
- Application security or product security expertise
- Software development in Python, Go, or comparable languages
- Threat modeling and security risk assessment
- Design review and architecture evaluation
- Incident response and secure software delivery practices
- Cross-functional communication with engineering teams
- Automated security testing and tooling
- Secure coding practices and guidelines
Benefits
- Performance-driven compensation with bonus and equity
- 100% paid health insurance for employees, 90% for dependents
- Lifestyle wallet for wellness and learning
- Employer-paid life, disability, fertility, and mental health benefits
- Generous PTO, parental leave, and company holidays
- Catered meals, events, and comfortable office workspaces
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Robinhood
Robinhood builds financial products and platforms including brokerage, incentives, and identity verification services that serve millions of users. The company is hiring backend engineers to develop scalable fintech infrastructure, quality assurance engineers to test mobile and web applications, internal platform engineers to maintain Salesforce systems, and IT support specialists.
- Website
- robinhood.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe a time you worked with engineering teams to reduce security risks in their development process—what approach did you take?
- How have you designed or built security tooling that developers actually adopted in production environments?