Staff DevX Engineer: Architect Scalable Dev Infra

Robinhood; New York (NY); On-site; USD 230,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% paid health insurance

401(k) matching

Equity ownership

Flexible meals and office perks

Wellness and learning wallet

Job summary

Robinhood’s DevX team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the core developer infrastructure, including build systems and CI pipelines. The role requires guiding architecture decisions, improving developer velocity, and enabling thousands of engineers to code, test, and build at scale.

You will mentor engineers, shape standards, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to reduce friction and raise productivity.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, scaling, and operating critical developer infrastructure or high-volume build/CI systems.
• Deep expertise in modern build systems (e.g., Bazel) and distributed/remote build execution.
• Strong programming proficiency in Go or Python; proven system software development experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect the long-term technical strategy and roadmap for core developer infrastructure, including CI, SCM, and development environments.
• Build and maintain scalable infrastructure with focus on speed, safety, and reliability.
• Lead onboarding strategy and remote development environments to reduce time-to-first-commit for engineers.
• Collaborate with teams to standardize build/CI patterns and champion high engineering standards.
• Provide mentorship and conduct design reviews to establish best-practice operational guidelines.

Skills

Developer infrastructure

Build systems

CI/CD at scale

Go

Python

Technical leadership

Tools

Bazel

Remote build execution

CI tooling

Job description

Robinhood’s DevX team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the core developer infrastructure, including build systems and CI pipelines. The role requires guiding architecture decisions, improving developer velocity, and enabling thousands of engineers to code, test, and build at scale.

You will mentor engineers, shape standards, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to reduce friction and raise productivity.