Senior AI Security Platform Engineer

The Briefed; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity ownership

401(k) matching

Wellness stipend

AI tools access

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Robinhood is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the AI Security team to build a secure AI platform and platform guardrails. You will design scalable microservices, APIs, and developer tools that enable internal security workflows while focusing on identity, authentication, and encryption across Go and Python microservices.

The role requires strong cloud-native experience and collaboration across security and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional software development.
• 3+ years building large-scale distributed systems with embedded security.
• Experience with AI platforms or AI-powered applications.
• Proficiency in Go or Python with production debugging and system design.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy a scalable, secure AI platform for internal teams.
• Build reusable platform microservices, REST/gRPC APIs, libraries, SDKs.
• Design distributed infrastructure with identity, auth, encryption controls.
• Develop guardrails and monitoring for safe AI agents.
• Optimize throughput, reliability, and threat detection via tooling.
• Collaborate with infra, security ops, and engineering leads.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Security architecture

Cloud platforms

Tools

REST APIs

gRPC

Kubernetes

Apache Kafka

Job description

Robinhood is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the AI Security team to build a secure AI platform and platform guardrails. You will design scalable microservices, APIs, and developer tools that enable internal security workflows while focusing on identity, authentication, and encryption across Go and Python microservices.

The role requires strong cloud-native experience and collaboration across security and engineering teams.