Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Storage Platform

Robinhood-s; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity and 401(k) matching

Life & disability insurance

Mental health benefits

Paid time off & holidays

Catered meals and office perks

Job summary

Robinhood is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Storage Platform team based in Bellevue, WA. You will design core infrastructure for storage systems, including sharding, query routing, and cross‑shard transactions, impacting availability and performance across multi‑region deployments.

You will work with Postgres, NoSQL, and caching systems, owning automation for thousands of databases and ensuring cost efficiency while maintaining high uptime.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in PostgreSQL (Aurora PostgreSQL preferred) and strong understanding of relational database internals.
• Experience building or operating distributed systems, including horizontal sharding, replication, and distributed transactions (e.g., two-phase commit).
• Proficiency in Go and/or Rust, with experience building backend or infrastructure services.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, AWS managed services (RDS, DynamoDB), and observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing).
• Strong understanding of system reliability, performance tuning, and cost optimization in high-scale production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement distributed storage systems, including sharding strategies, query routing layers, and database proxy services.
• Improve availability, failover, and disaster recovery capabilities across multi-region deployments.
• Build and enhance control plane automation that manages thousands of databases and caching clusters at scale.
• Optimize database performance and throughput by analyzing query patterns, improving connection pooling, and implementing observability standards.
• Partner with product and infrastructure teams to standardize how services connect to Postgres, NoSQL, and caching systems while meeting regulatory and security requirements.

Skills

PostgreSQL expertise

Aurora PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

Go

Rust

Kubernetes

AWS services

Observability

Reliability engineering

Performance tuning

Tools

Kubernetes

RDS (AWS)

DynamoDB

Aurora PostgreSQL

Job description

Robinhood is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Storage Platform team based in Bellevue, WA. You will design core infrastructure for storage systems, including sharding, query routing, and cross‑shard transactions, impacting availability and performance across multi‑region deployments.

You will work with Postgres, NoSQL, and caching systems, owning automation for thousands of databases and ensuring cost efficiency while maintaining high uptime.