Staff Software Engineer — Mission-Critical Brokerage Infra

Robinhood; Menlo Park, New York (CA, NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity ownership

401(k) matching

AI tools access

Flexible benefits wallet

Life & disability insurance

Parental leave

Catered meals

Job summary

Robinhood is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Brokerage Infra, based in Menlo Park and New York, with hybrid workstyle. You will define the technical vision for tier-zero systems, lead a 10+ engineer team, and drive modernization to support millions of transactions per second.

You’ll own reliability, collaborate across teams, and help shape the engineering culture at scale. The role demands deep expertise in mission-critical, high-scale systems, strong ownership, and the ability to

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional engineering experience, with several years at the staff level and prior Team Lead experience.
• Deep expertise with tier zero or mission-critical systems at significant scale - systems handling millions to tens of millions of QPS.
• Experience leading architectural migrations or modernization efforts (e.g., language rewrites, traffic routing simplification, storage improvements).

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for the platform, Robinhood's tier zero order processing and account management system.
• Lead and develop a team of 10+ engineers at various levels, coaching and mentoring emerging leaders, setting a high technical bar, and fostering ownership.
• Drive modernization initiatives including and resolving core storage bottlenecks.
• Own reliability and uptime KPIs - including SLOs for subsecond order latency, high availability, capacity planning, and rapid incident recovery during high-volume trading events.
• Collaborate across infrastructure and product teams to enforce reliability standards and align on technical direction.
• Proactively identify scalability and reliability risks, champion preventative solutions, and coordinate fast incident response.
• Shape hiring, onboarding, and the engineering culture as the platform continues to scale.

Skills

Staff engineering

Team leadership

Scale systems

Mentoring engineers

Ownership and accountability

Job description

Robinhood is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Brokerage Infra, based in Menlo Park and New York, with hybrid workstyle. You will define the technical vision for tier-zero systems, lead a 10+ engineer team, and drive modernization to support millions of transactions per second.

You’ll own reliability, collaborate across teams, and help shape the engineering culture at scale. The role demands deep expertise in mission-critical, high-scale systems, strong ownership, and the ability to