Senior Offensive Security Engineer
Robinhood helps users invest in stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies through commission-free trading with no minimum account requirements.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Robinhood
Robinhood helps retail investors access financial markets through commission-free trading of stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies. With it, users can invest with no account minimums, earn rewards through retirement accounts with matching contributions, and access advanced trading tools. Robinhood democratizes investing by making financial markets accessible to everyone, not just wealthy investors.
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About the Role
You will plan and execute red-team exercises, threat modeling, and penetration tests across applications, infrastructure, and corporate environments. You will develop security-testing tools, partner on adversarial simulations and incident readiness, communicate findings, support remediation, mentor engineers, and lead relevant security incidents.
Requirements
- Have 6 or more years of red-team operations or advanced penetration-testing experience
- Have experience mentoring security engineers
- Understand network protocols and standards including DNS and TCP/IP
- Have experience with macOS and Linux
- Understand CI, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and GCP security testing and hardening
- Know defensive tools and techniques including IDS, IPS, packet capture, network analysis, antivirus, and EDR
- Understand the MITRE ATT&CK Framework
- Understand access and identity security fundamentals
- Read and write Python, Go, and JavaScript
- Research and execute testing plans for new technologies or processes
- Have experience working with distributed teams
- Communicate through Slack, JIRA, GitHub Issues, and email
- Have preferred Financial Technology experience
- Have preferred technical-lead experience
Responsibilities
- Evangelize offensive-security findings and projects with stakeholders
- Mentor Offensive Security team members
- Plan and execute red-team exercises and long-term adversarial assessments
- Perform threat modeling and penetration testing across applications, infrastructure, and corporate environments
- Develop scripts and tools to automate security testing
- Partner on adversarial simulations and incident readiness
- Communicate findings and partner with engineering teams to remediate risks
- Lead security incidents arising from penetration-testing or red-team findings
- Plan and participate in adversarial simulation exercises
Benefits
- Health insurance with 100% employee coverage and 90% dependent coverage
- Annual lifestyle wallet
- Family-forming and fertility benefits
- Mental health support for employees and eligible dependents
- Company holidays, paid time off, sick time, and parental leave
- Catered meals and stocked kitchens
- Commuter benefits
