Senior Software Engineer, Storage Platform

Robinhood • Bellevue, WA

2d • $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 Storage Platform team builds and operates the platform that powers database access across Robinhood, managing relational (Postgres/Aurora), key-value (DynamoDB), and caching systems, along with SDKs, control plane automation, and data plane services. Their mission is to standardize and strengthen how services connect to storage, improve reliability and performance, and reduce operational overhead through automation. This role focuses on building and improving core infrastructure for reliability, performance, and operational excellence, delivering key components of data plane and control plane systems, and evolving patterns for safe database access. The role is based in Bellevue, WA, with a hybrid work model requiring at least 3 days per week in the office.

Requirements

• Strong experience building and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production environments.
• Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL and relational database concepts (schema design, indexing, query performance, replication fundamentals).
• Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Go or Rust, with the ability to learn existing codebases quickly.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and containers (AWS and Kubernetes preferred), plus hands-on operational skills (on-call, incident response, and post-incident follow-ups).
• Familiarity with system observability practices and performance measurement (metrics, dashboards, logs, and tracing).

Responsibilities

• Build and ship services that improve database reliability and performance, including connection pooling, query routing, and database access patterns.
• Implement automation that reduces manual work for operating databases and caching clusters at scale (provisioning, configuration changes, backups, and routine operations).
• Improve observability for storage systems by adding metrics, logs, and alerts that help detect issues early and speed up incident response.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues across storage infrastructure, including latency regressions, capacity constraints, and availability events.
• Contribute to engineering standards for secure database connectivity (for example, encryption-in-transit) and safe usage guardrails.

Benefits

• Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
• 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents.
• Lifestyle wallet — a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more.
• Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
• 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