Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience (DevX)

Robinhood • Menlo Park, CA

9d • $196,000 - $230,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Robinhood is building an elite team to apply frontier technologies to the world's biggest financial problems. The DevX team's mission is to build and operate the core developer infrastructure at Robinhood. This team owns and scales the systems that thousands of engineers rely on daily, partnering with software developers across the company to make development fast, reliable, and cost-efficient. This role is based in our New York City or Menlo Park office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. Robinhood believes in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. The office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.

Requirements

• Experience building and maintaining developer infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, or large-scale build systems (such as Bazel)
• Proficiency in writing clean, maintainable code in Go or Python
• Experience with distributed or remote build execution systems, and a solid understanding of containerization and orchestration using Kubernetes
• Strong problem-solving skills and a focus on improving developer productivity, onboarding, and engineering workflows

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize monorepo builds using Bazel and own the remote build execution cluster, ensuring fast, stable builds and short feedback loops for our engineering teams
• Scale CI pipelines to support thousands of daily builds, focusing on speed, safety, and reliability, while managing GitHub repository configurations, pre-merge checks, and test executions
• Improve the developer onboarding experience, reducing time-to-first-commit and making it easy for new engineers to get productive
• Provide and maintain remote development environments to accelerate local workflows and ensure developers can code, test, and deploy with minimal friction

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 that gives eligible US employees the opportunity to invest in a private employee fund that provides exposure to Robinhood Ventures funds.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed