Staff Software Engineer, Brokerage Infra

Robinhood • Menlo Park, NY

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

Robinhood is building an elite team to democratize finance, applying frontier technologies to the world's biggest financial problems. The Brokerage Infrastructure team owns Robinhood's tier zero, mission-critical service responsible for all order processing, account management, and platform availability. This team handles millions of transactions per second across high-volume market events, and reliability is non-negotiable. We are seeking a Staff Level Engineer to take on a high-visibility leadership role, defining the technical vision, leading modernization initiatives, and setting the reliability bar across Robinhood's most critical infrastructure. This role involves managing a team of 10+ engineers, owning cross-team stakeholder relationships, and driving engineering excellence for systems operating at scale. The role is based in Menlo Park, CA and New York, NY offices, with a hybrid attendance expectation of 3 days per week.

Requirements

• 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 — you've 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: you question scalability assumptions, enforce rigorous engineering processes, and think through edge cases others miss
• 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

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

Benefits

• Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact
• bonus programs
• equity ownership
• 401(k) matching
• 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
• mental health benefits
• company holidays
• paid time off
• sick time
• parental leave
• 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