Staff Cloud Security Engineer

About the team and role:

The Cloud Security team is focused on protecting Robinhood’s AWS cloud and providing engineers with foundational security capabilities. It is a major contributor  to the company’s least privilege objective to manage network traffic and reduce the level of access that employees have or could obtain through escalation.  A Staff Security Engineer on the Cloud Security team is a well-rounded technologist and a deep subject matter expert in cloud security and building security controls on Amazon Web Services (AWS).  The ideal candidate for this role will embody and exemplify our Safety First value.

What you'll do: 

As a Staff Security Engineer you will be part of a team which owns the security posture for cloud infrastructure on which all Robinhood products are built. You will build and operate solutions that protect foundational infrastructure and make it easier for Robinhood developers to protect their applications.

What you bring:

The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in the following:

• Securing enterprise applications on AWS by building software, services, and automation that provide safe defaults, paved roads, and intuitive capabilities to other developers.
• Proficiency with Golang (preferred) or Python and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Strong command of industry best practices like the AWS Well-Architected framework and CIS Benchmarks and have expert level knowledge of AWS security services like Identity & Access Management (IAM), Service Control Policies (SCPs), AWS WAF, and AWS Network Firewall.

 

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Last updated on Jul 25, 2024