Senior Software Engineer

Robinhood

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Salary: $196,000–$230,000 / yr
Posted: 25 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live 2 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $165k

This role $213k

$107k most similar roles pay here $243k

This role pays more than 86% of similar roles. Most pay $144,350–$185,425 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $213k versus about $165k for comparable roles.

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About Robinhood

Robinhood is a financial technology company offering commission-free stock, ETF, options, and cryptocurrency trading through its mobile app, aimed at democratizing access to financial markets. Industry: Financial Technology & Investment App

Robinhood currently has 35 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $196,000–$230,000 across 35 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer

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As a Senior Software Engineer on the Load and Fault team within the Developer Infrastructure organization, you will design and build infrastructure to simulate load, inject faults, and validate system behavior under stress. You will own platform components end-to-end, from architecture and implementation through testing and deployment, ensuring tools are reliable and developer-friendly. Your daily work involves collaborating with infrastructure and product teams to translate resilience needs into platform capabilities while defining blast radius controls and fault injection primitives for chaos experiments. The role requires over five years of experience in software engineering using Python or Go within distributed systems environments. You will utilize Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure to integrate resilience tooling into CI/CD pipelines, solving the technical challenge of ensuring system reliability and developer productivity across a large-scale financial platform.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.

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Skills

Python Go Kubernetes Distributed Systems Chaos Engineering CI/CD Load Testing Fault Injection

What you'll do

Design, build, and maintain load testing and fault injection infrastructure to validate system resilience.
Own platform components end-to-end from architecture and implementation through deployment and iteration.
Translate requirements from product teams into technical capabilities for shared developer tooling.
Define steady-state hypotheses and blast radius controls to make chaos experiments safe and repeatable.
Develop fault injection primitives that provide actionable signals at scale.
Write production-quality, well-tested code in Python or Go for distributed systems.
Participate in technical design discussions to improve engineering standards across the organization.

What we're looking for

5+ years of software engineering experience with strong coding skills in Python, Go, or a similar language.
Experience designing or contributing to load testing, fault injection, chaos engineering, or developer productivity infrastructure in distributed systems.
Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals including failure propagation and experiment design.
Familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure.
Experience integrating resilience tooling into CI/CD pipelines (preferred).
A builder's approach to developer tooling focused on ergonomics and adoption.

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