Senior Software Engineer, Storage Platform

Robinhood

Hybrid

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Bellevue, WA
Salary: $196,000–$230,000 / yr
Posted: 1 day ago

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This role $213k

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This role pays more than 60% of similar roles. Most pay $177,362–$235,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $213k versus about $207k 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 80 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Storage Platform

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As a Senior Software Engineer on the Storage Platform team at Robinhood, you will focus on building and improving core infrastructure that powers database access across the company. Your responsibilities include developing data plane and control plane systems such as connection pooling, query routing, and automation workflows to enhance reliability and performance. You’ll also work on reducing operational overhead through automation and enhancing observability with metrics, logs, and alerts. The role requires strong experience in backend or infrastructure systems, proficiency in languages like Go or Rust, and hands-on skills with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes) and system observability practices. This position is crucial for managing thousands of databases and caching clusters supporting millions of users, ensuring high availability and strict uptime targets during market hours.

Skills

PostgreSQL AWS Kubernetes Go Rust Python CI/CD Docker Prometheus Grafana Terraform

What you'll do

Build and improve core infrastructure to enhance database reliability and performance.
Implement automation workflows for provisioning, configuration changes, backups, and routine operations of databases.
Enhance observability by adding metrics, logs, and alerts for storage systems.
Diagnose and resolve production issues related to latency, capacity constraints, and availability events.
Contribute to engineering standards for secure database connectivity and usage guardrails.

What we're looking for

Strong experience in building and operating backend or infrastructure systems.
Proficiency in PostgreSQL and relational database concepts.
Expertise in Go or Rust with quick learning ability for existing codebases.
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and containers (Kubernetes).
Familiarity with system observability practices, including metrics, logs, and tracing.

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