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The Reliability Engineering team at Robinhood is focused on ensuring the scalability, performance, and resilience of the systems powering our millions of users. As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll be part of the founding team shaping our reliability practices from the ground up. Our mission is to build a culture and foundation of reliability into all areas of the stack—from brokerage and crypto to backend infrastructure and tooling. The team is also going to be building with other teams, specifically building out the pre-production/staging environments, working with observability, and internal developer tooling groups as well!
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead major technical initiatives and influence reliability engineering strategy across the company. You’ll build and scale critical systems, work closely with partners across product and infrastructure teams, and be a core contributor to establishing standards and best practices for observability, testing, and system readiness. You’ll operate with significant autonomy while mentoring others and setting a high bar for engineering excellence!
This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week.
At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.
What you’ll do- Develop and build software, infrastructure and tools that improve observability, alerting, incident response, and system readiness
- Serve as a technical leader and reliability domain expert across multiple teams, driving architectural decisions and cross-functional initiatives
- Design and lead large-scale reliability efforts that impact Robinhood’s most critical systems and services
- Lead Production Readiness Reviews, championing best practices in pre-production testing, SLO development, and incident response metrics
- Mentor engineers, foster a reliability-first culture, and drive long-term improvements that reduce operational overhead and improve system health
- 8+ years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems in production environments
- Deep technical expertise in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, C++) and strong systems engineering fundamentals
- Experience leading major infrastructure or reliability initiatives across multiple teams or domains
- Track record of improving reliability metrics such as SLO adherence, MTTD/MTTR, or cost efficiency at scale
- Strong mentorship and communication skills, with a focus on collaboration, clarity, and impact
- Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching
- Best in class benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
- Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more
- Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits
- Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
In addition to the base pay range listed below, this role is also eligible for bonus opportunities + equity + benefits.
Base pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. The expected base pay range for this role is based on the location where the work will be performed and is aligned to one of 3 compensation zones. For other locations not listed, compensation can be discussed with your recruiter during the interview process.
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If our mission energizes you and you’re ready to build the future of finance, we look forward to seeing your application.
Robinhood provides equal opportunity for all applicants, offers reasonable accommodations upon request, and complies with applicable equal employment and privacy laws. Inclusion is built into how we hire and work—welcoming different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences so everyone can do their best. Please review the Privacy Policy for your country of application.
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What We Do
Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOOD) transformed financial services by introducing commission-free stock trading and democratizing access to the markets for millions of investors. Today, Robinhood, through its subsidiaries, lets you trade stocks, options, futures (which includes event contracts), and crypto, invest for retirement, earn with Robinhood Gold, and access an expert-managed portfolio with Robinhood Strategies. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Robinhood puts customers in the driver’s seat, delivering unprecedented value and products intentionally designed for a new generation of investors.
Additional information about Robinhood can be found at www.robinhood.com.
Why Work With Us
At Robinhood, we are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. Every role can make a real impact. We’re a team of builders, doers, and bold thinkers who thrive in a high-performance environment and take pride in raising the bar for ourselves and the millions of customers we serve.
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