Senior Offensive Security Engineer

Robinhood • Menlo Park, CA

89d • $187,000 - $220,000

About The Position

Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. Robinhood is looking for an Offensive Security Engineer who is passionate about Red Teaming, Adversarial Simulation, and breaking / fixing systems, to join the Red Team. The Red Team is a core pillar of the Offensive Security team and situated within the Safety & Productivity Engineering organization. The Red Team works with teams across Robinhood to ensure our products, services, and processes are secure through threat modeling, penetration testing, adversarial simulations, and red teaming.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Red Team experience.
• Experience mentoring other team members.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the Financial Technology domain.
• Experience being a technical lead at other organizations.

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.
• Utilize threat modeling to identify threats and shape Red Team priorities and exercises.
• Plan and execute long term, broadly scoped, black box Red Team exercises utilizing vulnerability research, exploit development, and utilizing public proof of concept code.
• Perform penetration testing, code reviews, and design/architecture reviews.
• Write tooling to assist with and automate Red Team assessments.
• Plan and participate in Adversarial Simulation exercises with various security teams.
• Lead Security Incidents when Pentest or Red Team findings require them.
• Publish blog posts and present talks at security conferences.

Benefits

• Market competitive and pay equity-focused compensation structure
• 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
• Annual lifestyle wallet for personal wellness, learning and development, and more!
• Lifetime maximum benefit for family forming and fertility benefits
• Dedicated mental health support for employees and eligible dependents
• Generous time away including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!
• Lively office environment with catered meals, fully stocked kitchens, and geo-specific commuter benefits
• In addition to the base pay range listed below, this role is also eligible for bonus opportunities + equity + benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees