Staff Security Engineer (Detection & Response)

Join Robinhood, a fast-paced fintech company, as a Staff Security Engineer (Detection & Response). In this high-impact role, you will lead incident response strategies, build detection engineering frameworks, and mentor engineers across the organization. You will work closely with cross-functional partners to protect Robinhood's ecosystem and drive strategic innovation in security operations.

• Lead and command security incident response workstreams, rapidly containing threats and communicating effectively with leadership.
• Build, tune, and maintain the global detection catalog across cloud and Kubernetes environments to ensure high precision and actionable alerting.
• Architect the Autonomic Security Operations (ASO) roadmap, integrating AI agents and automated issue discovery to transform response capabilities.
• 8+ years of experience in Detection & Response, Incident Response, or Security Operations
• Detection Engineering Mastery: Track record of designing, tuning, and operating scalable detection engineering pipelines and SOAR playbooks, as well as leveraging AI technologies to improve speed, scale, and quality
• Code Reasoning Skills: Ability to fluently read, analyze, and reason through code across multiple programming languages to solve complex security challenges
• AI Experience: Hands-on experience designing and implementing agentic AI workflows for security operations
• Agility: Ability to thrive in high-growt
• Proven Command Presence: Demonstrated success leading complex incident responses under pressure with clear, action-oriented executive communication
• Deep Cloud & Infrastructure Expertise: Advanced technical experience securing cloud environments with a focus on Kubernetes
• Familiarity with DeFi/crypto, blockchain, and related technologies
• Background in high-growth fintech, crypto platforms, or managed security service providers
• Hands-on experience with Threat Hunting, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, or Red Team operations