This role pays more than
73%
of similar roles. Most pay
$196,975–$254,500
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$250k
versus about
$226k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Storage Platform team, you will design and evolve core infrastructure powering database access across the organization. You will build and manage relational systems like Postgres and Aurora, key-value stores such as DynamoDB, and caching clusters while developing SDKs, control plane automation, and data plane services. Your daily work involves leading complex distributed systems initiatives including horizontal sharding, proxy-based query routing, connection pooling, and cross-shard transactions to improve reliability and performance across multi-region deployments. You will utilize Go or Rust, Kubernetes, AWS managed services, and observability tools to optimize database throughput and cost efficiency. This role addresses the critical challenge of providing high availability and low latency for brokerage workloads by standardizing how internal services connect to storage systems while meeting strict uptime targets during market hours.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $202800 from 326 postings across 28 companies.
Remote (New York, NY)86 days ago
$126,000–$248,000
Rust
C++
Kubernetes
AWS
Azure
GCP
Distributed Systems
Containerization
Observability
Load Testing
Chaos Engineering
Database Internals
Multi-tenant Cloud Services
High Availability
Data Processing Systems