Senior Software Engineer - Robinhood Command Center

Robinhood

Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Menlo Park, CA
Salary
$196,000–$230,000 / yr
Posted
53 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $194k
This role $213k
$153k most similar roles pay here $238k

This role pays more than 71% of similar roles. Most pay $165,450–$222,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $213k versus about $194k 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 81 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 - Robinhood Command Center

As a Senior Software Engineer on Robinhood's newly formed Command Center team in Menlo Park, CA, you will lead the reliability and observability strategy across the company’s infrastructure, partnering with various engineering teams to enhance operational excellence and incident response. Your daily responsibilities include coordinating service owners during incidents, developing and maintaining robust incident management processes, and defining global dashboards for critical user journeys. You will also drive post-incident governance, improve monitoring and alerting frameworks, and mentor team members. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on reliability engineering, hands-on incident leadership roles, and expertise in observability stacks like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana. This role is crucial for ensuring high service quality and minimizing customer impact at scale.

What you'll do

  • Drive long-term reliability and observability strategy across Robinhood’s infrastructure.
  • Lead incident mitigation efforts by coordinating service owners during active incidents.
  • Develop and maintain incident management processes to ensure timely resolution.
  • Own global dashboards and alerts for critical user journeys and business metrics.
  • Evolve incident response tooling and processes, including education and measurement.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with significant production systems operation
  • 2+ years in reliability engineering, infrastructure, distributed systems, or production operations
  • Hands-on incident leadership roles such as IMOC, incident commander, primary oncall
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills during high-severity incidents
  • Deep knowledge of systems reliability, observability frameworks, and fault-tolerant architecture
  • Experience with multi-region/multi-cluster architectures, capacity planning, failover strategies
  • Familiarity with modern observability stacks including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana

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