Robinhood
Staff Software Engineer, AI Security
$180K–$270K
Bellevue, WA +4 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Location
- Bellevue, WA
Menlo Park, CA
Bellevue, WA
Menlo Park, CA
Toronto, Canada - Experience
- 8+ years of software development; 6+ years building large-scale distributed systems.
About the job
Build and lead a secure, scalable AI platform and infrastructure that enables security teams to develop and operate AI-powered agents and capabilities.
What you'll do
- Design and build platform services, APIs, libraries, and SDKs for AI-enabled security workflows.
- Implement identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, data protection, and safety guardrails in reliable distributed systems.
- Partner with security and engineering teams to shape platform architecture and improve reliability, performance, security, and developer experience.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- 6+ years building large-scale distributed systems, including systems designed around security concepts such as authentication, authorization, identity, or encryption.
- Experience building AI platforms, AI infrastructure, or production systems for AI-powered applications or agents.
- Proficiency in Go or Python; experience with cloud-native platforms and distributed systems technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, or Kafka.
Pay
USD 230,000–270,000 base salary (Zone 1); USD 203,000–238,000 base salary (Zone 2); USD 180,000–211,000 base salary (Zone 3)
Tools
Go, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, Kafka
AI focus
Build secure AI platforms, infrastructure, and guardrails for AI-powered security agents and applications.
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