Senior Security Engineer, Blockchain

About the team + role

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.

The Application Security team mission is to ensure that Robinhood's applications and production environments are built and operated with the highest standards of security, enabling a safer, scalable, and resilient platform for all users. By proactively identifying vulnerabilities, managing risks, and empowering the engineering community with effective security platforms, we drive robust application and production security practices across the organization.

As a Senior Blockchain Security Engineer, you’ll design and safeguard the cryptographic foundations of our fintech systems. You’ll own key management, secure payment flows, and protocol reviews while driving adoption of cutting-edge cryptography. This role combines hands-on technical depth with cross-team influence to protect customer trust and keep us ahead of emerging threats.

This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA office, 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.

What you’ll do

• Perform proactive assessments covering infrastructure, secure and resilient architecture, data security (including privacy), identity and access management, application and product security for our Crypto business


• Prioritize and drive the reduction of discovered security issues, vulnerabilities, and risks by partnering with the business to provide recommendations and solutions


• Work with technical leads to develop strategies, programs, systems and tools that enhance our approach in keeping our products, data, and customers safe and secure


• Collaborate with partner security teams to help safeguard Robinhood’s data and infrastructure


• Provide technical expertise on Robinhood’s Security and Privacy solutions, policies, procedures, and standards


• Stay up to date on the direction of emerging security, privacy, blockchain technologies, and industry trends


• You don’t just identify security issues — you bring a builder’s mindset to remediate them at scale.

What you bring

• 4+ years of experience conducting cyber security assessments


• 3+ years of experience engineering security solutions


• 2+ years of experience specializing in assessing and securing blockchain applications and infrastructure


• Deep understanding of blockchain technologies, protocols, exploits, and frameworks and associated security risks


• Security domain knowledge across many cyber security disciplines


• Outside-the-box thinking (adversary mentality)


• Experience communicating effectively with technical/non-technical and executive-level audiences


• Working knowledge of Go or Python for interacting with security tooling APIs


• Security automation experience is a plus


• Security technical report writing is a plus


• AWS experience is a plus

What we offer

• 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.