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Salary: USD 230,000 - 270,000 / annual
Robinhood is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Brokerage Infrastructure team, which owns the company's tier-zero, mission-critical platform responsible for all order processing, account management, and platform availability. This is a high-visibility leadership role at a pivotal moment for the platform.
You will define the technical vision and roadmap for Robinhood's order processing and account management system, which handles millions of transactions per second during high-volume market events. You'll lead and develop a team of 10+ engineers at various levels, coaching and mentoring emerging leaders while setting a high technical bar and fostering a culture of ownership and accountability.
Key responsibilities include:
- Define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for the tier-zero platform
- Lead and develop a team of 10+ engineers, mentoring emerging leaders and setting technical standards
- Drive modernization initiatives, including resolving core storage bottlenecks
- Own reliability and uptime KPIs, including SLOs for subsecond order latency, high availability, capacity planning, and rapid incident recovery during high-volume trading events
- Collaborate across infrastructure and product teams to enforce reliability standards and align on technical direction
- Proactively identify scalability and reliability risks, champion preventative solutions, and coordinate fast incident response
- Shape hiring, onboarding, and engineering culture as the platform scales
The role is based in Menlo Park, CA or New York, NY with hybrid attendance expected 3 days per week.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of professional engineering experience, with several years at the staff level and prior team lead experience
- Deep expertise with tier-zero or mission-critical systems at significant scale (systems operating at millions to tens of millions of QPS)
- Demonstrated experience managing engineering teams of ~10+ engineers, including senior and staff-level individual contributors
- Experience leading architectural migrations or modernization efforts (language rewrites, traffic routing simplification, storage improvements)
- Strong ownership mentality: question scalability assumptions, enforce rigorous engineering processes, think through edge cases
- Track record of maintaining system correctness and reliability in high-accountability production environments (financial order execution, account management, or similar)
- Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to influence and align across infrastructure and product organizations
