Senior Security Engineer (Detection & Response)

Join Robinhood's Security Operations (SecOps) team as a Senior Security Engineer (Detection & Response). In this high-impact role, you will drive incident response strategy, build robust detection engineering frameworks, and work closely with cross-functional partners to protect Robinhood's ecosystem. You will lead incident response workstreams, elevate detection rigor, drive strategic innovation, and participate in an on-call rotation. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in Detection & Response, Incident Response, or Security Operations, advanced technical experience securing cloud environments, and a background in high-growth fintech or crypto platforms.

• Lead and command security incident response workstreams, rapidly containing threats and communicating effectively with leadership.
• Build, tune, and maintain the global detection catalog across cloud and Kubernetes environments to ensure high precision and actionable alerting.
• Architect the Autonomic Security Operations (ASO) roadmap, integrating AI agents and automated issue discovery to transform response capabilities.

• Detection Engineering Mastery: Track record of designing, tuning, and operating scalable detection engineering pipelines and SOAR playbooks, as well as leveraging AI technologies to improve speed, scale, and quality
• Code Reasoning Skills: Ability to fluently read, analyze, and reason through code across multiple programming languages to solve complex security challenges
• Deep Cloud & Infrastructure Expertise: Advanced technical experience securing cloud environments with a focus on Kubernetes
• 5+ years of experience in Detection & Response, Incident Response, or Security Operations
• AI Experience: Hands-on experience designing and implementing agentic AI workflows for security operations
• Agility: Ability to thrive in high-growth, fast-paced environments with evolving threat landscapes
• Proven Command Presence: Demonstrated success leading complex incident responses under pressure with clear, action-oriented executive communication
• Background in high-growth fintech, crypto platforms, or managed security service providers
• Familiarity with DeFi/crypto, blockchain, and related technologies
• Hands-on experience with Threat Hunting, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, or Red Team operations