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Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Robinhood· Security Division
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Hybrid (Bellevue, WA; Denver, CO; Menlo Park, CA)$187k - $220kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior IC5 Security Engineer role in Detection & Response focused on incident response leadership, detection engineering, and AI-native security operations within Robinhood’s SecOps team.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Incident Response: Command security incident response workstreams with decisive leadership, rapidly containing threats, quantifying impact, and communicating effectively with leadership.
  • Elevate Detection Rigor: Build, tune, and maintain our global detection catalog across our cloud and kubernetes environments to ensure high precision and actionable alerting.
  • Drive Strategic Innovation: Architect our Autonomic Security Operations (ASO) roadmap, integrating AI agents and automated issue discovery to transform response capabilities.
  • Code & Architecture Analysis: Read and reason through complex, multi-language codebases to identify security vulnerabilities, evaluate threat vectors, and guide remediation.
  • On-Call Support: Participate in an on-call rotation (1 week per rotation) to maintain real-time operational readiness.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in Detection & Response, Incident Response, or Security Operations.
  • Proven Command Presence: Demonstrated success leading complex incident responses under pressure with clear, action-oriented executive communication.
  • Deep Cloud & Infrastructure Expertise: Advanced technical experience securing cloud environments with a focus on Kubernetes.
  • Code Reasoning Skills: Ability to fluently read, analyze, and reason through code across multiple programming languages to solve complex security challenges.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Skills

Required:Incident Response leadershipDetection engineeringAI in security operationsCloud security (Kubernetes)

Benefits

  • Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career.
  • Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
  • Best-in-class benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents.
  • Lifestyle wallet — a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more.
  • Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
  • Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more.
  • Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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