Staff Offensive Security Engineer, Robinhood

• 8+ 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

Desirable

• 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
• Here are some examples of things our team does frequently that you’ll be heavily involved with:
• Red Teaming to validate assumptions, facilitate decisions, and improve our ability to detect and respond to incidents
• Perform threat modeling against critical and new services. Articulate the actual security risk to risk working groups
• Penetration testing our critical infrastructure, production applications, networks, offices, and processes
• Sparring with Detection and Response and other stakeholders via Adversarial Simulations to prepare for incidents
• Partnering with the physical security team to conduct assessments of Robinhood properties
• Serving as a technical advocate and Subject Matter Expert for privacy and security decisions, designs, and discussions
• Driving innovative ideas to implementation as the company evolves and grows
• Conduct vulnerability research to understand latest TTPs, exploits, and forward looking capabilities
• Leaving things better than you found them by partnering to fix the issues and not just finding broken things
• As an Offensive Security Engineer, you will work across multiple domains, partner with key teams across Robinhood, and help build an even more resilient and secure product for our customers
• 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