Senior Detection & Response Engineer — AI-Driven SecOps

Robinhood; Bellevue, Denver, Menlo Park (WA, CO, CA); Hybrid; USD 187,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (100% for employee)

Equity ownership

401(k) matching

Bonus programs

Catered meals & events

Generous time off

Job summary

Robinhood is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to drive incident response strategy and build robust detection engineering frameworks. You will lead high-stress responses, reduce noise with an AI-native detection platform, and help shape the broader AI-agentic SecOps ecosystem.

Collaboration with Proactive Security, Security Engineering, Insider Trust, Infrastructure, Legal, and Communications is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Detection & Response, Incident Response, or Security Operations.
• Proven command presence leading complex incident responses under pressure.
• Deep cloud and infrastructure security exposure, with focus on Kubernetes.
• Ability to read, analyze, and reason through code across multiple languages to solve security challenges.
• Track record designing, tuning, and operating scalable detection pipelines and SOAR playbooks; leveraging AI tech.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response workstreams with decisive leadership and clear executive communication.
• Build, tune, and maintain a global detection catalog across cloud environments and Kubernetes.
• Architect ASO roadmap, integrating AI agents and automated issue discovery.
• Read and analyze multi-language code to identify security vulnerabilities and guide remediation.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain real-time operational readiness.

Skills

5+ years SecOps

Incident response leadership

Cloud security Kubernetes

Code reading & reasoning

Detection engineering

AI in security

Agility

Job description

Robinhood is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to drive incident response strategy and build robust detection engineering frameworks. You will lead high-stress responses, reduce noise with an AI-native detection platform, and help shape the broader AI-agentic SecOps ecosystem.

Collaboration with Proactive Security, Security Engineering, Insider Trust, Infrastructure, Legal, and Communications is essential.