Senior Software Engineer, Load and Fault Environments

Robinhood; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (100% for employee)

Equity ownership

401(k) matching

Bonus programs

AI tools access

Lifestyle wallet

Life & disability insurance

Parental leave

Catered meals

Job summary

Robinhood is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Load and Fault Environments in Menlo Park, CA. You will design and build resilience testing infrastructure, enabling Robinhood engineers to validate system behavior under stress at scale.

You will own key platform components end-to-end and collaborate across infrastructure and product teams to drive adoption of shared tooling. This is an impactful IC role in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building production systems.
• Experience designing or contributing to load testing, fault injection, chaos engineering, or developer productivity infra.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and failure modes.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based infra; CI/CD integration is a plus.
• Builder mindset focused on ergonomics and adoption for engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain load testing and fault injection infrastructure.
• Own platform components end-to-end from architecture to deployment.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to meet resilience testing needs.
• Define steady-state hypotheses, blast radius controls, and fault injection primitives.
• Write clean, well-tested code and participate in design discussions.

Skills

Python

Go

Chaos engineering

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Developer tooling

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Load and Fault Environments

Join us in building the future of finance.

Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading.

About the team + role

We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world's biggest financial problems. We're looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn't a place for complacency, it's where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We're a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.

The Load and Fault team sits within Robinhood's Developer Infrastructure organization, with a mission to give every engineering team the tools they need to test their services under real-world conditions before those conditions test them in production. We build the platforms and frameworks that enable load testing, fault injection, and resilience validation at scale — treating reliability as a developer productivity problem, not just an operations one. Our work directly raises the quality bar for every service Robinhood ships, and we partner closely with engineering teams across the organization to make resilience testing a seamless part of the development workflow.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Load and Fault Environments team, you will design and build the infrastructure that lets Robinhood's engineers simulate load, inject faults, and validate system behavior under stress — at the scale of a fast-growing financial platform. You'll own meaningful components of the load testing and fault injection platform, write production-quality code, and collaborate with engineers across infrastructure and product teams to ensure the tooling you build gets adopted and drives real reliability improvements. This is a high-impact individual contributor role where your work directly shapes how Robinhood builds resilient systems!

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

• Design, build, and maintain load testing and fault injection infrastructure that enables engineering teams across Robinhood to validate system resilience as part of their standard development workflow.
• Own platform components end-to-end — from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, and iteration — ensuring the tools you build are reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering teams to understand their resilience testing needs, translate those needs into platform capabilities, and drive adoption of shared tooling.
• Contribute to defining steady-state hypotheses, blast radius controls, and fault injection primitives that make chaos experiments safe, repeatable, and actionable at scale.
• Write clean, well-tested code and participate in technical design discussions that raise the engineering bar across the team.

What you bring

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong coding skills in Python, Go, or a similar language — this role requires building production systems, not just operating them.
• Experience designing or contributing to load testing, fault injection, chaos engineering, or developer productivity infrastructure in a distributed systems environment.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals — how services fail, how failures propagate, and how to design experiments that surface meaningful signal without causing unintended outages.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure; experience integrating resilience tooling into CI/CD pipelines is a plus.
• A builder's approach to developer tooling — you care about ergonomics, adoption, and making it easy for other engineers to do the right thing.

What we offer

• Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
• Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching
• Top Tier benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
• Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee, technical or not
• 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.

Base Pay Range:

Zone 1 (Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; Bellevue, WA; Washington, DC)

$196,000 - $230,000 USD

Zone 2 (Denver, CO; Westlake, TX; Chicago, IL)

$172,000 - $202,000 USD

Zone 3 (Lake Mary, FL; Clearwater, FL; Gainesville, FL)

$153,000 - $179,000 USD

AI Usage Disclosure: Robinhood uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our recruiting process. These tools enhance the efficiency and consistency of our hiring process; however, all hiring decisions are made by our hiring teams.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Information

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