Staff Offensive Security Engineer

Robinhood
Bellevue
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: CybersecurityExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Mentoring","Problem-solving"]

An experienced security engineer leads offensive security initiatives, plans red team exercises, and mentors a security team to assess and strengthen Robinhood’s applications, infrastructure, and physical environments. The role focuses on threat modeling, adversarial simulations, tool development, and coordinating with engineering to remediate risks, ensuring robust incident readiness in a fintech context.

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Robinhood
Robinhood
7 months ago

Staff Offensive Security Engineer

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Job Summary

An experienced security engineer leads offensive security initiatives, plans red team exercises, and mentors a security team to assess and strengthen Robinhood’s applications, infrastructure, and physical environments. The role focuses on threat modeling, adversarial simulations, tool development, and coordinating with engineering to remediate risks, ensuring robust incident readiness in a fintech context.
Location: Bellevue
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Cybersecurity

Key Responsibilities

  • •Evangelize the Offensive Security Team’s findings and projects with stakeholders and collaborate to balance security with other priorities.
  • •Mentor and provide guidance to the Offensive Security team members.
  • •Plan and execute red team exercises, including long-term assessments that simulate real-world attack scenarios.
  • •Perform threat modeling and penetration testing across applications, infrastructure, and corporate environments.
  • •Develop scripts and tools to support and automate security testing activities.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceLearning BudgetEquityFertility Benefits

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of experience conducting red team operations or advanced penetration testing.
  • •Experience mentoring or supporting the development of other security engineers.
  • •Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to present at Engineers to Executives levels.
  • •Comfortable reading / writing python, go, and javascript.
  • •Experience with CI, container orchestration systems (Kubernetes/Docker), cloud providers (AWS, GCP), and be able to give hardening suggestions.
Experience:8+ yearsFintech
Skills:CommunicationMentoringProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonGoJavaScriptKubernetesDockerAWSGCPMacOSLinuxMITRE ATT&CK

Company Brief

Robinhood
Commission-free trading platform offering stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies, plus cash management and retirement products. Aims to democratize finance through easy-to-use mobile and web apps for retail investors.
Industry: Trading Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Menlo Park, United States
Founded: 2013
WebsiteLinkedIn