Senior Software Engineer

Robinhood • Menlo Park, CA

21d • Hybrid

About The Position

Robinhood is building an elite team to apply frontier technologies to the world's biggest financial problems. The Load and Fault team, within Robinhood's Developer Infrastructure organization, is responsible for providing engineering teams with the tools to test their services under real-world conditions before they are tested in production. This involves building platforms and frameworks for load testing, fault injection, and resilience validation at scale. The team treats reliability as a developer productivity problem and works closely with engineering teams to integrate resilience testing into the development workflow. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will design and build the infrastructure for simulating load, injecting faults, and validating system behavior under stress at the scale of a fast-growing financial platform. You will own components of the load testing and fault injection platform, write production-quality code, and collaborate with engineers across infrastructure and product teams to drive adoption and improve reliability. This is a high-impact individual contributor role shaping how Robinhood builds resilient systems. This role is based in the Menlo Park, CA 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.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong coding skills in Python, Go, or a similar language — this role requires building production systems, not just operating them.
• Experience designing or contributing to load testing, fault injection, chaos engineering, or developer productivity infrastructure in a distributed systems environment.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals — how services fail, how failures propagate, and how to design experiments that surface meaningful signal without causing unintended outages.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure; experience integrating resilience tooling into CI/CD pipelines is a plus.
• A builder's approach to developer tooling — you care about ergonomics, adoption, and making it easy for other engineers to do the right thing.

Nice To Haves

• experience integrating resilience tooling into CI/CD pipelines is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain load testing and fault injection infrastructure that enables engineering teams across Robinhood to validate system resilience as part of their standard development workflow.
• Own platform components end-to-end — from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, and iteration — ensuring the tools you build are reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering teams to understand their resilience testing needs, translate those needs into platform capabilities, and drive adoption of shared tooling.
• Contribute to defining steady-state hypotheses, blast radius controls, and fault injection primitives that make chaos experiments safe, repeatable, and actionable at scale.
• Write clean, well-tested code and participate in technical design discussions that raise the engineering bar across the team.

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 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