Lead Red Team Engineer — Offensive Security

Robinhood; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 187,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity & benefits

Wellness wallet

Fertility benefits

Mental health support

Generous time off

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Robinhood is seeking a Staff Offensive Security Engineer to lead red team activities across applications, infrastructure, and physical environments. You will plan long-term assessments, develop testing plans, and build tools to improve security testing and incident readiness.

Based in offices across Bellevue, NY, Denver, or Menlo Park, the role requires hands-on expertise, mentoring, and strong communication with engineers and executives to remediate risks and strengthen defenses.

Qualifications

• 6+ 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 your findings at many different levels of abstraction from Engineers to Executives.
• Passion for fixing security issues and not just identifying security issues.
• Familiarity with common network protocols and standards such as DNS and TCP/IP.
• Experience with MacOS and Linux.
• Experience with leveraging components of a modern software development stack to attack companies, including CI, container orchestration systems (Kubernetes/Docker), cloud providers (AWS, GCP), etc and be able to give 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’s ATT&CK Framework.
• Strong understanding of the security fundamentals of access and identity.
• Comfortable reading / writing python, go, and javascript.
• Ability to research and execute a testing plan to access a new technology or process.
• Demonstrated experience working with a distributed team.
• Proficiency to communicate over a text-based medium (Slack, JIRA Issues, GitHub issues, & Email) and can succinctly document technical details.

Responsibilities

• Evangelize the Offensive Security Team’s Findings and Projects with stakeholders throughout the company and collaborate with other teams to create solutions that balance security with other priorities.
• Mentor and provide guidance to the members of the Offensive Security team.
• Plan and execute red team exercises, including long-term assessments that simulate 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.

Skills

Red team ops

Mentoring security engineers

Threat modeling

Penetration testing

Python/Go/JavaScript

CI/CD security

Cloud security (AWS/GCP)

Container security (Kubernetes/Docker)

Defensive tools knowledge (IDS/IPS)

MITRE ATT&CK

Security testing planning

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

GCP

Python

Go

JavaScript

Job description

Robinhood is seeking a Staff Offensive Security Engineer to lead red team activities across applications, infrastructure, and physical environments. You will plan long-term assessments, develop testing plans, and build tools to improve security testing and incident readiness.

Based in offices across Bellevue, NY, Denver, or Menlo Park, the role requires hands-on expertise, mentoring, and strong communication with engineers and executives to remediate risks and strengthen defenses.