高级软件工程师 - Robinhood Command Center

Join us in building the future of finance.

Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading.

• Serve as a senior technical leader driving the long-term reliability and observability strategy across Robinhood’s infrastructure

• Partner closely across many different types of engineers to raise the bar for operational excellence and incident response

• Lead incident mitigation efforts by coordinating service owners, facilitating time-sensitive decisions like rollbacks, traffic shifts, and maintaining a clear source of truth during active incidents

• Develop and maintain incident management processes and procedures to ensure timely resolution and minimize customer impact

• Own incident discovery at the company level by defining and maintaining global dashboards and alerts tied to critical user journeys (CUJs), availability, and business-impact metrics

• Own and evolve incident response tooling and processes, including education, adoption, and measurement of MTTD/MTTR improvements

• Drive post-incident governance and learning, defining standards for postmortems, SEV reviews, and follow-up tracking to ensure durable reliability improvements

• Design and implement next-generation failure mitigation strategies that avoid full-region or full-datacenter failovers

• Define and build frameworks to improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across hundreds of services and systems

• Define and own the roadmap of bringing observability to critical user journeys for Robinhood’s products

• Deliver key insights and executive-level reporting to enable better business decisions around service quality and reliability

• Act as a force multiplier through mentoring, technical influence, and contributions to hiring and engineering culture

What you bring:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience operating production systems

• 2+ years focused on reliability engineering, infrastructure, distributed systems, or production operations

• Hands-on experience serving in incident leadership roles (e.g., IMOC, incident commander, primary oncall)

• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, especially during high-severity incidents

• Deep knowledge of systems reliability, observability frameworks, and fault-tolerant architecture design

• Experience with multi-region or multi-cluster architectures, capacity planning, and failover strategies

• Familiarity with modern observability stacks (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana)

• Demonstrated ability to drive measurable improvements in MTTD, MTTR, availability, or customer impact

• Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career

• Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching

• Best in class benefits to fuel your work, including 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

• 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

In addition to the base pay range listed below, this role is also eligible for bonus opportunities + equity + benefits.

Base pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. The expected base pay range for this role is based on the location where the work will be performed. For other locations not listed, compensation can be discussed with your recruiter during the interview process.

Zone 1 (Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; Bellevue, WA; Washington, DC) $196,000 — $230,000 USD

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If our mission energizes you and you’re ready to build the future of finance, we look forward to seeing your application.

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