Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the Role + Team The Security Engineering team builds the identity and access control plane governing how employees, services, and agentic workloads access Robinhood’s critical infrastructure. We are a platform-building engineering team focused on creating secure, frictionless, and automated self-service access systems at scale. As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you will shape Robinhood’s foundational identity architecture, define technical strategy, and build Tier-0 access infrastructure used across the entire company! From solving complex authentication and authorization challenges to setting secure guardrails for emerging AI and agentic workflows, your technical leadership will directly impact every product team at Robinhood! What You'll Do Access Control Plane Architecture: Define and build the core technical architecture for managing employee, service, non-human, and agentic access across company-wide resources Tier-0 Platform Engineering: Design, build, and operate highly available, resilient, and observable backend identity infrastructure using Go, Python, Rust, or comparable systems languages. AuthN & AuthZ Solutions: Implement modern identity protocols and access frameworks (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, RBAC, ABAC, and policy-based access controls). AI & Agentic Access Governance: Develop secure access patterns, identity frameworks, governance, and observability guardrails for AI agents, LLM applications, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) systems. Self-Service Developer Experience: Create automated, developer-friendly platforms that allow teams to request, approve, provision, and audit access without ma
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Identity Governance and Access Security Team The Identity Governance and Access Security team runs Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), and Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) for Okta itself — serving as Okta's "Customer Zero." The team owns the complete identity lifecycle for the workforce, from birthright provisioning t
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What you'll be doing OIG Architecture Ownership: Own OIG architecture end-to-end — design access request workflows, entitlement/Resource Collections structures, and certification campaigns that reduce reviewer fatigue and rubber-stamping; Compliance Experience: Experience operating in SOX and compliance-critical environments — understanding audit evidence requirements, segregation of duties, and access certification integrity; All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran; We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws
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Okta
The Okta and Auth0 Platforms enable secure access, authentication, and automation — putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
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