Senior Software Engineer

Robinhood

Hybrid

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Salary: $161,637–$230,000 / yr
Posted: 7 days ago

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This role $196k

$153k most similar roles pay here $239k

This role pays less than 58% of similar roles. Most pay $171,000–$231,062 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $196k versus about $201k 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 82 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $187,000–$220,000 across 81 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer

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Join our team as a Senior Software Engineer in Menlo Park, CA, where you will design and build large-scale systems that power Robinhood’s platform and core services. Your daily tasks include writing high-quality code, creating capacity and scaling plans, debugging complex real-time issues, and participating in on-call rotations to ensure system reliability. You’ll mentor teammates, promote best practices, and drive long-term improvements to reduce downtime while collaborating with industry-leading engineers to develop scalable tools and infrastructure. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with large-scale incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability engineering, along with expertise in observability and fault-tolerant architecture design. This role involves optimizing infrastructure for cost-efficiency and supporting Robinhood’s mission to democratize finance globally.

Skills

Incident Management System Reliability Observability Fault Tolerant Architecture CI/CD Scalability Performance Optimization Python Java Kubernetes AWS PostgreSQL Docker Git Linux

What you'll do

Design and build large-scale systems for Robinhood’s platform.
Write high-quality code and create capacity scaling plans.
Lead by example in mentoring teammates and promoting best practices.
Take ownership of system reliability through on-call rotations and proactive issue resolution.
Drive innovation by optimizing infrastructure for cost-efficiency and global scalability.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field plus 3 years of experience.
Hands-on experience with large-scale incident response and root cause analysis.
Application of system reliability principles, observability, and fault-tolerant architecture design.
Development and maintenance of incident management processes to ensure timely resolution.
Design and implementation of frameworks for measuring and improving production system scalability.

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