Job Description

Robinhood was founded on a simple idea: that our financial markets should be accessible to all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood is lowering barriers and providing greater access to financial information. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in.

As we continue to build...

We’re seeking curious, growth minded thinkers to help shape our vision, structures and systems; playing a key-role as we launch into our ambitious future. If you’re invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world — we’d love to have you apply.

About the team + role

Robinhood is looking for a data governance and protection professional who is passionate about data governance, security, and privacy to become a member of the Security team. This role will work with teams across Robinhood to ensure our products and services protect user and business data by designing architectures, tools, and features that make Robinhood’s data collection, storage and processing safe and secure throughout the data lifecycle. You will be the technical advocate for data governance decisions, designs, and discussions. You will not only lead the development of industry-vetted data governance solutions but drive innovative ideas to implementation as the company evolves and grows.

What you'll do

Partner with non-technical teams (legal, compliance, product) to maintain a strong understanding of relevant legal and compliance requirements that impact our business and our products
Architect and design technical governance and security solutions to meet applicable legal and compliance requirements and adhere to our internal policies and industry best practices. Areas of focus include data access controls / identity and access management (IAM), data encryption, data recovery, data loss prevention, and scanning and alerting, as well as foundational data governance capabilities including discovery, classification, tagging, lineage, retention and deletion
Deliver clear technical requirements to technical engineering teams to inform the build of technical governance and security solutions, with the capability to map the same back to upstream legal and compliance requirements 
 Discover and document the ways that data is currently collected, stored, and processed across our products and infrastructure to ensure our practices are aligned to industry best practices, legal and compliance requirements, and our internal policies
Embed with engineering and product teams during design and development phases to offer “by design” guidance as it relates to data governance, security, and privacy 
Conduct technical, product, and policy reviews for new products and features and identify risks and mitigations 
Advocate for data governance, security, and privacy solutions and identify innovative opportunities to advance our posture

What you bring

B.S. or M.S. Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
4+ years of work experience in security engineering or software engineering
Experience with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Code maintenance and review experience in one or more general purpose languages
Experience building relationships and influencing stakeholders across multiple disciplines
Experience in data security and governance with the following principles or technologies: data access control design and implementation / identity and access management (IAM), data encryption, data recovery, data loss prevention, scanning and alerting, data discovery, tagging, classification, and inventory; data obfuscation techniques (encryption, pseudonymization, tokenization); and data anonymization. 
Experience with concepts and practices such as threat modeling, data anonymization and classification, auditing access to data, and review of requests for data access
CISSP 
CIPT
Experience in Finance and portfolio trading