As a Senior Software Engineer on the AI Security team at Robinhood, you will play a crucial role in building a scalable and secure AI platform that empowers security teams to develop AI-powered agents and solutions. This position focuses on solving complex engineering challenges at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and security. You will collaborate closely with various teams to ensure that security is integrated into the platform from the beginning. This hands-on role is ideal for someone who enjoys building platforms and addressing intricate technical problems.

• 5+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems with a focus on security concepts such as authentication, authorization, identity, or encryption
• Experience building AI platforms or production systems that support AI-powered applications
• Proficiency in Go or Python with strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• 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 production system design
• Experience designing and building reusable platform capabilities, APIs, libraries, or developer tooling
• Proven experience delivering large engineering projects with long-term impact
• Strong technical judgment and ability to make thoughtful trade-offs across security, reliability, scalability, and developer experience
• Ability to solve complex engineering problems and collaborate effectively across teams

• Design and build a scalable AI platform that enables security teams to develop, deploy, and operate AI-powered agents and security capabilities
• Build foundational platform services, APIs, libraries, and SDKs for AI integration into security workflows
• Design secure systems with strong identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection controls
• Build and operate reliable, large-scale distributed systems that support AI-powered security use cases
• Develop platform capabilities and guardrails that enable safe AI agent development and operation
• Partner with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into reusable platform capabilities
• Identify opportunities to improve platform performance, developer experience, reliability, and security through automation
• Help shape the technical direction and architecture of Robinhood's AI Security platform as the team and platform grow