Robinhood

Robinhood

Staff Software Engineer, Robinhood Command Center

Menlo Park, CA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$230k-$270kDetected 14 days ago
Distributed SystemsPrometheusGrafanaIncident ResponseLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

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Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role80
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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Level IV · 4×
Level I$137,0931 entry
Level II$165,1312 entries
Level III$193,1493 entries
Level IV$221,1874 entries

This range already reaches Level IV — the maximum four lottery entries.

DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.

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About the role

  • If you're ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading.

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • 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
  • Deep knowledge of systems reliability, observability frameworks, and fault-tolerant architecture design
  • Demonstrated ability to drive measurable improvements in MTTD, MTTR, availability, or customer impact

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience operating production systems
  • 3+ years focused on reliability engineering, infrastructure, distributed systems, or production operations
  • Experience with multi-region or multi-cluster architectures, capacity planning, and failover strategies
  • Familiarity with modern observability stacks (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces

Skills

  • Join us in building the future of finance.
  • 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.
  • About the team & role
  • Sharp problem-solvers.
  • Builders who are wired to make an impact.
  • Robinhood isn't a place for complacency, it's where ambitious people do the best work of their careers.
  • Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.

Compensation

  • $230,000 - $270,000 USD
  • $203,000 - $238,000 USD
  • $180,000 - $211,000 USD
  • Base Pay Range:

Benefits

  • 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!
  • 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.

Company info

  • Our mission is to democratize finance for all.
  • We're a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do.
  • As part of Robinhood's broader reliability initiative, RCC works closely with product engineering, reliability, observability, infrastructure, and business teams to reduce customer impact and shorten incident duration.

Equal opportunity

  • Robinhood provides equal opportunity for all applicants, offers reasonable accommodations upon request, and complies with applicable equal employment and privacy laws.
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