Senior Data Lake Engineer – Streaming Ingestion

Robinhood; Washington; On-site; USD 172,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity

401(k) matching

Lifestyle wallet

Job summary

Robinhood is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Lake Ingestion team in Bellevue, WA. You will design and implement high-throughput ingestion systems, migrate legacy pipelines, and land curated datasets in S3 while ensuring data security and governance.

The role emphasizes building scalable, secure ingestion platforms, mentoring engineers, and coordinating with partner teams to meet latency and compliance needs. In-person work is expected at least 3 days a week at the Bellevue office.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building backend platforms or distributed data systems.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Scala, or Python with clean, high-performance code.
• Deep expertise with relational databases and change data capture (CDC).
• Experience building and operating large-scale streaming systems using Kafka, Flink, or Spark.
• Familiarity with AWS, S3, Kubernetes, and schema governance.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale CDC, snapshot, and streaming ingestion systems that transfer operational data into the data lake.
• Improve pipeline reliability, scale, data quality, and monitoring to reduce ingestion lag.
• Develop self-service onboarding flows and tooling for registering databases and schemas securely.
• Collaborate with platform data consumers to implement ingestion patterns meeting latency and compliance needs.
• Implement access controls and retention pipelines to protect sensitive data.

Skills

Distributed data systems

Backend development

Java

Scala

Python

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Flink

Spark

AWS S3

Kubernetes

Job description

Robinhood is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Lake Ingestion team in Bellevue, WA. You will design and implement high-throughput ingestion systems, migrate legacy pipelines, and land curated datasets in S3 while ensuring data security and governance.

The role emphasizes building scalable, secure ingestion platforms, mentoring engineers, and coordinating with partner teams to meet latency and compliance needs. In-person work is expected at least 3 days a week at the Bellevue office.