Senior Software Engineer (Storage Platform)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Storage Platform): Building and operating core database infrastructure for a high-scale financial platform with an accent on reliability, performance, and automation. Focus on designing data plane and control plane components, optimizing database access patterns, and ensuring system availability under heavy traffic.

Location: Must be based in Bellevue, WA (Hybrid: 3 days per week in-office).

Salary: $196,000–$230,000 USD (Base pay for Bellevue, WA zone).

Company

Robinhood is a financial services company on a mission to democratize finance for all by building innovative technology for the future of wealth management.

What you will do

• Build and ship services to improve database reliability, including connection pooling and query routing.
• Implement automation to reduce manual operational work for databases and caching clusters.
• Enhance storage system observability through metrics, logs, and distributed tracing.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues such as latency regressions and capacity constraints.
• Contribute to engineering standards for secure database connectivity and safe usage guardrails.

Requirements

• Must be based in or able to work from the Bellevue, WA office.
• Strong experience building and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production.
• Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL, schema design, indexing, and replication fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Go or Rust with the ability to learn new codebases quickly.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and containers, specifically AWS and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on operational experience including on-call and incident response.

Culture & Benefits

• Performance-driven compensation including bonus programs and equity ownership.
• 100% paid health insurance for employees and 90% for dependents.
• Flexible lifestyle wallet for wellness and learning expenses.
• Employer-paid life, disability, and mental health benefits.
• Generous time off including company holidays, sick time, and parental leave.