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Staff Software Engineer, Brokerage Infra

Robinhood· Brokerage Engineering
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Hybrid (Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY)$230k - $270kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Staff-level leadership role owning Robinhood's Tier Zero Brokerage Infrastructure, responsible for order processing, account management, and platform reliability at scale. Defines technical vision, leads a 10+ engineer team, drives modernization, and maintains high reliability during peak trading events.

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 a culture of ownership and accountability
  • 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, effective incident response
  • Shape hiring, onboarding, and the engineering culture as the platform continues to scale

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 — contributed to or maintained systems operating at millions to tens of millions of QPS
  • Demonstrated experience managing engineering teams of ~10+ engineers, including senior and staff-level ICs
  • Experience leading architectural migrations or modernization efforts (e.g., language rewrites, traffic routing simplification, storage improvements)
  • Strong ownership mentality and focus on scalability, engineering rigor, edge-case thinking
  • Track record of maintaining system correctness and reliability in high-accountability production environments (financial order execution, account management, or similar)
  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and align across infrastructure and product organizations

Skills

Required:Technical leadershipTeam managementArchitecture modernization

Benefits

  • 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 Robinhood Employee Fund enabling investment in a private employee fund with exposure to Robinhood Ventures funds
  • Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee
  • Lifestyle wallet for wellness, learning, and more
  • Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits
  • Time off to recharge including holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more
  • Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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