Staff Software Engineer (AI Security)

Join Robinhood as a Staff Software Engineer on the AI Security team. In this hands-on engineering role, you will lead the development of a scalable AI platform for security teams, design secure systems, and build reliable distributed systems. You will collaborate with security and engineering teams to create reusable platform capabilities and improve performance, developer experience, reliability, and security. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience in building large-scale distributed systems, a strong understanding of security fundamentals, and proficiency in Go or Python.

• Concevoir et construire une plateforme d'IA évolutive qui permet aux équipes de sécurité de développer, déployer et exploiter des agents et des capacités de sécurité alimentés par l'IA.
• Construire des services de plateforme fondamentaux, des API, des bibliothèques et des SDK qui facilitent l'intégration de l'IA dans les flux de travail de sécurité.
• Identifier les opportunités d'améliorer les performances de la plateforme, l'expérience des développeurs, la fiabilité et la sécurité grâce à l'automatisation.

• 6+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, with experience designing systems around security concepts such as authentication, authorization, identity, or encryption
• 8+ years of software development experience
• Experience with cloud-native platforms and distributed systems technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, or Kafka
• Strong understanding of security fundamentals and experience incorporating security into the design of production systems
• Proficiency in Go or Python, with strong problem-solving and production debugging skills
• Experience building AI platforms, AI infrastructure, or production systems that support AI-powered applications or agents
• Ability to solve complex engineering problems and collaborate effectively across security and engineering teams
• Proven experience delivering large engineering projects with meaningful, long-term impact
• Experience designing and building reusable platform capabilities, APIs, libraries, or developer tooling
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to make thoughtful trade-offs across security, reliability, scalability, and developer experience