Software Engineer, Cryptography
About The Position
Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. The Cryptographic Services & Infrastructure team secures and manages cryptographic keys and enables Robinhood engineering teams to safely leverage core capabilities like encryption and decryption. Join a high-impact team responsible for protecting some of Robinhood's most sensitive financial and customer data! In this role, you will help build and operationalize Robinhood's new in-house card-processing service—a critical initiative that brings core capabilities in-house and offers meaningful ownership across software, infrastructure, security, and operations. While prior cryptography or security experience is highly preferred, we are excited to empower strong engineers with a passion for security to learn and grow their skills on the job. This role is based in our Bellevue, WA and Menlo Park, CA offices, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.
Requirements
- Experience building, operating, or supporting production services, distributed systems, or infrastructure.
- Proficiency writing production code in at least one modern programming language (such as Python, Go, Java, C#, or C++) with a strong ability to reason about complex systems.
- Comfort working across multiple technical domains, including software development, infrastructure, and operational reliability.
- Clear and concise communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to explain technical decisions and proactively collaborate when facing challenges.
- Curiosity and willingness to learn security engineering principles and participate in a light on-call rotation.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience in site reliability engineering (SRE), platform engineering, or cloud security.
- Familiarity with key management, secrets management, or core cryptographic concepts (such as symmetric encryption or public/private key pairs).
- Experience handling sensitive financial, payment, or card data in regulated environments.
- Background in supporting internal customer migrations or driving platform adoption across engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain production services and infrastructure supporting key management, encryption, and decryption functions.
- Help architect, launch, and scale Robinhood’s new in-house card-processing environment to protect sensitive card, financial, and tax-related data.
- Write clean, maintainable production code and build operational tooling across software, infrastructure, and security controls.
- Collaborate with internal engineering teams to support migrations, drive adoption of shared cryptographic capabilities, and ensure safe system design.
- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to maintain high availability, security, and operational reliability as processing volume grows.
Benefits
- Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career.
- Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
- Best-in-class benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents.
- Lifestyle wallet — a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more.
- Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
- Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
