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Staff Offensive Security Engineer

Robinhood· Security Division
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Hybrid (Bellevue, WA; New York, NY; Denver, CO; Menlo Park, CA)$169k - $255kPosted 9mo ago

About the role

Staff-level role in Robinhood’s Red Team focused on identifying and reducing real-world security risks across applications, infrastructure, and physical environments through adversary simulations, threat modeling, and development of testing tools.

Responsibilities

  • Evangelize the Offensive Security Team’s findings and projects with stakeholders; collaborate to balance security with other priorities.
  • Mentor and guide Offensive Security team members.
  • Plan and execute red team exercises, including long-term assessments simulating real-world attack scenarios.
  • Perform threat modeling and penetration testing across applications, infrastructure, and corporate environments.
  • Develop scripts and tools to support and automate security testing activities.
  • Partner with detection and response teams to run adversarial simulations and improve incident readiness.
  • Communicate findings clearly and work with engineering teams to remediate identified risks.
  • Lead Security Incidents when Pentest or Red Team findings require them.
  • Plan and participate in Adversarial Simulation exercises with various security teams.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience conducting red team operations or advanced penetration testing
  • Experience mentoring or supporting the development of other security engineers
  • Passion and demonstrated experience for challenging security assumptions
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate findings at multiple levels of abstraction
  • Passion for fixing security issues and not just identifying them
  • Familiarity with DNS and TCP/IP
  • Experience with MacOS and Linux
  • Experience with CI, Kubernetes/Docker, AWS, GCP, etc., and providing hardening suggestions
  • Experience/knowledge of defensive tools/techniques (IDS/IPS, Packet Capture, Network Analysis, AV, EDR, etc.) and how to evade them
  • Deep understanding of MITRE ATT&CK Framework
  • Strong understanding of security fundamentals of access and identity
  • Comfortable reading/writing Python, Go, and JavaScript
  • Ability to research and execute testing plans to access new technology or processes
  • Demonstrated experience working with a distributed team
  • Proficiency communicating via text-based channels (Slack, JIRA, GitHub Issues, Email) and documenting technical details digitally.

Skills

Required:Red Team operations / advanced penetration testingMentoring / leadershipThreat modelingPenetration testingScripting / toolingAdversarial simulationsCommunicationMITRE ATT&CKOperating systemsProgramming languages

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 holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more
  • Lively office environment with catered meals, fully stocked kitchens, and geo-specific commuter benefits
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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