Staff Software Developer, Observability

Robinhood Markets was founded on a simple idea: that our financial markets should be accessible to all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood and its subsidiaries and affiliates are lowering barriers and providing greater access to financial information. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in.

With growth as the top priority...

The business is seeking curious, growth-minded thinkers to help shape our vision, structures and systems; playing a key role as we launch into our ambitious future. If you’re invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world — we’d love to have you apply.

The Observability Team is responsible for all things observability and monitoring at Robinhood, encompassing metrics, logging, tracing, error handling, and alerting. The team builds and maintains a platform that allows other development teams to seamlessly integrate observability into their services, ensuring issues are detected and resolved with minimal friction!

Our platform leverages external solutions such as:

• Metrics: Chronosphere (via Prometheus and Grafana)
• Logging: Humio
• Tracing: Honeycomb
• Error Handling: Sentry
• Paging: PagerDuty

Robinhood is looking for an experienced Staff Software Developer to act as the Team Lead of the Observability Team. This team plays a critical role in enabling our engineering teams to deliver reliable and performant software by providing a robust observability platform. As a leader of this team, you will drive the strategy, execution, and vision for observability at Robinhood, ensuring our tools and systems are world-class, scalable, and cost-efficient.

What you’ll do

• Design and Build: Scalable and reliable observability platforms at Robinhood.
• Strategize and Drive: Define the long-term vision for observability at Robinhood and set the roadmap to achieve it.
• Technical Leadership: Provide deep technical expertise in observability, ensuring the team builds scalable, reliable, and efficient systems and acting as the Team Lead.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to gather feedback, understand their needs, and refine the platform.
• Mentorship: Elevate the team by mentoring developers, holding a high bar for quality, and fostering a culture of excellence.
• Efficiency and Cost Management: Drive initiatives to reduce time to detect and resolve issues while optimizing costs for logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Build Partnerships: Establish strong relationships with other engineering leaders and teams, ensuring smooth collaboration and shared success.

What you bring

• Expertise in Observability: Deep experience with observability tools and platforms such as Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Honeycomb, Chronosphere, or similar.
• Technical Acumen: Strong coding skills in Python, Go, and experience with Kubernetes and cloud-based architectures.
• Leadership Experience: Proven track record as a technical lead, driving strategy, and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
• Operational Excellence: Familiarity with managing the balance between self-hosted and vendor-managed solutions, optimizing for performance and cost.

We’re looking for more growth-minded and collaborative people to be a part of our journey in democratizing finance for all. If you’re ready to give 100% in helping us achieve our mission—we’d love to have you apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Robinhood, we're looking for people invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

Robinhood embraces a diversity of backgrounds and experiences and provides equal opportunity for all applicants and employees. We are dedicated to building a company that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work (and work environment) will be for everyone.