Robinhood
Senior
Build least-privilege AWS security controls and paved roads for Robinhood's Cloud Security team
Robinhood is hiring a Senior Cloud Security Engineer for its Cloud Security team, which owns the security posture of the AWS infrastructure underlying all Robinhood products and drives the company's least-privilege objective. This interview centers on hands-on AWS security engineering (IAM, SCPs, WAF, Network Firewall), building automation/paved roads with Golang or Python and Terraform, and applying frameworks like the AWS Well-Architected Framework and CIS Benchmarks.
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What this interview tests
- AWS security services: IAM, Service Control Policies, WAF, Network Firewall
- Least-privilege architecture and reducing access/escalation paths at scale
- Building security automation/paved roads with Golang or Python
- Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform
- AWS Well-Architected Framework and CIS Benchmarks applied in practice
- Balancing developer velocity with a safety-first security posture
Common question themes
Describe a paved-road security tool or service you built for other engineers on AWS
How have you used IAM and SCPs to enforce least privilege at scale
Walk through how you'd design guardrails using AWS WAF or Network Firewall
How do you apply the Well-Architected framework or CIS Benchmarks in real design decisions
Tell me about a Terraform-based IaC project you owned end to end
How do you balance safety-first controls against developer friction
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