Software Engineer, Cryptography

About the Role & Team

The Cryptographic Services & Infrastructure team secures and manages cryptographic keys and enables Robinhood engineering teams to safely leverage core capabilities like encryption and decryption.

Join a high-impact team responsible for protecting some of Robinhood's most sensitive financial and customer data! In this role, you will help build and operationalize Robinhood's new in-house card-processing service—a critical initiative that brings core capabilities in-house and offers meaningful ownership across software, infrastructure, security, and operations. While prior cryptography or security experience is highly preferred, we are excited to empower strong engineers with a passion for security to learn and grow their skills on the job.

This role is based in our Bellevue, WA and Menlo Park, CA offices, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week.

At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams. 

What you'll do day-to-day

• Design, build, and maintain production services and infrastructure supporting key management, encryption, and decryption functions.
• Help architect, launch, and scale Robinhood’s new in-house card-processing environment to protect sensitive card, financial, and tax-related data.
• Write clean, maintainable production code and build operational tooling across software, infrastructure, and security controls.
• Collaborate with internal engineering teams to support migrations, drive adoption of shared cryptographic capabilities, and ensure safe system design.
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to maintain high availability, security, and operational reliability as processing volume grows.
  
  

What you bring

• Experience building, operating, or supporting production services, distributed systems, or infrastructure.
• Proficiency writing production code in at least one modern programming language (such as Python, Go, Java, C#, or C++) with a strong ability to reason about complex systems.
• Comfort working across multiple technical domains, including software development, infrastructure, and operational reliability.
• Clear and concise communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to explain technical decisions and proactively collaborate when facing challenges.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn security engineering principles and participate in a light on-call rotation.
  
  

Bonus points

• Prior experience in site reliability engineering (SRE), platform engineering, or cloud security.
• Familiarity with key management, secrets management, or core cryptographic concepts (such as symmetric encryption or public/private key pairs).
• Experience handling sensitive financial, payment, or card data in regulated environments.
• Background in supporting internal customer migrations or driving platform adoption across engineering teams.
  
  

What we offer

• Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career.
• Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
• Best-in-class benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents.
• Lifestyle wallet — a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more.
• Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
• Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!
• Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.