Senior Software Engineer, Storage Platform

About the role

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. This represents the largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you are ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, continue reading.

About the team + role

We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world's biggest financial problems. We are looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood is not a place for complacency, it is where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We are a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.

The Storage Platform team builds and operates the platform that powers database access across Robinhood. We own relational (Postgres/Aurora), key-value (DynamoDB), and caching systems, along with the SDKs, control plane automation, and data plane services that enable safe and reliable access at scale. Our mission is to standardize and strengthen how services connect to storage, improve reliability and performance, and reduce operational overhead through automation. We manage thousands of databases and hundreds of caching clusters supporting millions of users and critical brokerage workloads. Availability is our highest priority - our systems are designed to meet strict uptime targets, including no downtime during market hours.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build and improve core infrastructure used by many engineering teams, with a focus on reliability, performance, and operational excellence. You will deliver key components of data plane and control plane systems, for example connection pooling, query routing, automation workflows, and observability. You will help evolve patterns for safe, consistent database access. You will work closely with peers to design pragmatic solutions, reduce toil through automation, and improve how we operate storage systems at scale.

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This role is based in our Bellevue, WA office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.

What you'll do

• 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, including 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 during market hours.
• Contribute to engineering standards for secure database connectivity, for example encryption-in-transit, and safe usage guardrails.
• Refactor SDKs so application teams integrate storage patterns safely.
• Own runbooks that guide responses to capacity and replication anomalies.
• Partner with data platform teams to align caching strategies with business needs.

What you bring

• Strong experience building and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production environments.
• Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL, including indexing, replication, and query behavior.
• 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 to deploy resilient storage solutions.
• Experience managing caching clusters that support high read throughput.
• Commitment to encryption in transit and guardrails that prevent unsafe queries.

Nice to have

• Experience presenting complex designs to both technical and business audiences.

Skills & tools

• Postgres, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, observability tools, automation frameworks, SDKs.

Practical notes

• Compensation is quoted in USD and reflects a range based on role, location, and candidate experience. Base offers fall between 190000 USD and 280000 USD.

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Location: USA

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Engagement: full-time, in-person expectation of at least three days per week.

What you'll do

• Meet the bar