# Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response at Robinhood

- Company: Robinhood
- What the company does: Trade stocks on Robinhood with commission-free investing & advanced trading tools. Access fractional shares, real-time market data, and more. Terms and fees may apply. Backed by Index, Kleiner Perkins and NEA.
- Company website: http://robinhood.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Bellevue, WA; Denver, CO; Menlo Park, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/robinhood/jobs/8202863?t=gh_src=&gh_jid=8202863
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/robinhood-senior-security-engineer-detection-and-response/

## About the role

As a Senior Security Engineer (IC5) on the Detection & Response team, you will drive our incident response strategy and build robust detection engineering frameworks. In this high-impact role, you will command high-stress incident responses, eliminate operational noise by developing an AI-native detection platform, and help shape the broader AI-agentic ecosystem for SecOps.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience in Detection & Response, Incident Response, or Security Operations
- 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
- Code Reasoning Skills: Ability to fluently read, analyze, and reason through code across multiple programming languages to solve complex security challenges
- 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
- AI Experience: Hands-on experience designing and implementing agentic AI workflows for security operations

Tags: Security Division