robinhood

Staff Offensive Security Engineer

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At a Glance

Location
United States
Experience
8+ years
Posted
2026-02-11T12:39:03-05:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

AWSDockerGCPJavaScriptJiraKubernetesLinuxPython

Domain Knowledge

  • Finance

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance

structure 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dep

Requirements

8+ years of Red Team experience.

Passion for fixing security issues and not just identifying security issues.

Familiarity with common network protocols and standards such as DNS and TCP/IP.

Experience with MacOS and Linux.

Experience with leveraging components of a modern software development stack to attack companies, including CI, container orchestration systems (Kubernetes/Docker), cloud providers (AWS, GCP), etc and be able to give hardening suggestions.

Experience/knowledge of defensive tools/techniques (IDS/IPS, Packet Capture, Network Analysis, AV, EDR, etc.) and how to evade them.

Compensation & Benefits

Market competitive and pay equity-focused compensation structure

100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents

Annual lifestyle wallet for personal wellness, learning and development, and more!

Lifetime maximum benefit for family forming and fertility benefits

Dedicated mental health support for employees and eligible dependents

Generous time away including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!

Responsibilities

Evangelize the Offensive Security Team’s Findings and Projects with stakeholders throughout the company and collaborate with other teams to create solutions that balance security with other priorities.

Mentor and provide guidance to the members of the Offensive Security team.

Plan and execute long term, broadly scoped, black box Red Team exercises utilizing vulnerability research, exploit development, and utilizing public proof of concept code.

Perform penetration testing, code reviews, and design/architecture reviews.

Write tooling to assist with and automate Red Team assessments.

Plan and participate in Adversarial Simulation exercises with various security teams.

Team

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.

Robinhood is looking for an Offensive Security Engineer who is passionate about Red Teaming, Adversarial Simulation, and breaking / fixing systems, to join the Red Team.

The Red Team is a core pillar of the Offensive Security team and situated within the Safety & Productivity Engineering organization. The Red Team works with teams across Robinhood to ensure our products, services, and processes are secure through threat modeling, penetration testing, adversarial simulations, and red teaming.

Here are some examples of things our team does frequently that you’ll be heavily involved with:

Red Teaming to validate assumptions, facilitate decisions, and improve our ability to detect and respond to incidents.

Perform threat modeling against critical and new services. Articulate the actual security risk to risk working groups.