Defensive Staff Security Engineer, Blockchain Security
Posted on: 31 Aug 2022
San Francisco, CA
Job Description
About the role
Robinhood is seeking to hire Security Engineers to join our blockchain security team.
Your day-to-day will involve:
Assessing the security risks in blockchain protocols by combining your knowledge of cyber security and cryptocurrencies
Perform proactive assessments covering infrastructure, resilient, security architecture, application security, Layer-1/Layer-2 blockchains, token protocols and smart contracts
Prioritize and drive the reduction of discovered security issues, vulnerabilities, and risks by partnering with the business to provide recommendations and solutions
Conduct and facilitate security reviews, threat modeling including deep design reviews throughout the development lifecycle
Work directly with Robinhood Crypto engineering team to enable successful project implementation applying the recommended security tools, technologies and techniques. Provide expertise to software engineers as needed
Partnering with other parts of the Robinhood Security and Privacy team to integrate distributed ledger technologies into their process and tools
About you:
Bachelors or equivalent 4 year degree
6+ years of experience as a Security Researcher or Engineer
Familiar with popular cryptocurrency projects and interested in analyzing new projects and technologies
Familiar with at least some of the following: Python, Go, Rust
Methodical and analytical
Strong technical writing skills
Bonus points:
Passion for working and learning in a fast-growing company
Experience working on a remote first team
AWS experience is a plus
Previous work in a high security and/or highly regulated industry
Robinhood
Menlo Park, CA
Robinhood Markets, Inc. is an American financial services company headquartered in Menlo Park, California, known for offering commission-free trades of stocks and exchange-traded funds via a mobile app introduced in March 2015. Robinhood is a FINRA-regulated broker-dealer, registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and is a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.The company's revenue comes from three main sources: interest earned on customers' cash balances, selling order information to high-frequency traders (a practice for which the SEC opened an investigation into the company in September 2020) and margin lending. As of 2020, Robinhood had 13 million users.
Robinhood is on a mission to democratize finance for all. We believe it should work for everyone and not just a few. We offer commission-free trading in one, user-friendly platform. Trading in stocks, ETFs and options is offered through Robinhood Financial LLC, member SIPC. Cryptocurrency trading is offered through Robinhood Crypto, LLC. Keep in mind other fees may still apply to your brokerage account. Please see Robinhood Financial’s Fee Schedule at rbnhd.co/fees to learn more. All investments involve risk, including the possible loss of principal. Past performance of a security, or financial product does not guarantee future results or returns. Robinhood Crypto is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the New York State Department of Financial Services and is not a member of FINRA or SIPC. Cryptocurrencies are not stocks and your cryptocurrency investments are not products protected by either FDIC or SIPC. Robinhood Financial LLC and Robinhood Crypto, LLC are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Robinhood Markets, Inc.
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IndustryBanking/Financial Services
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No. of Employees1,281+
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