Senior Cloud Security Engineer

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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 Senior 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.

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• →As a Senior 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
• →Protect Robinhood’s AWS cloud environment and provide engineers with foundational security capabilities
• →Build, configure and set up systems with a safety first approach

• 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