2 months ago
Base Salary
$196k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and ship services that improve database reliability and performance, including connection pooling, query routing, and database access patterns.
- Implement automation for provisioning, configuration changes, backups, and routine operations across databases and caching clusters.
- Improve storage-system observability through metrics, logs, and alerts to support early issue detection and faster incident response.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues involving latency, capacity, and availability across storage infrastructure.
- Contribute to secure database connectivity standards, including encryption-in-transit and safe usage guardrails.
Requirements
- Strong experience building and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production environments.
- Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL and relational database concepts, including schema design, indexing, query performance, and replication fundamentals.
- 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, preferably AWS and Kubernetes.
- Hands-on operational experience with on-call, incident response, and post-incident follow-ups.
- Familiarity with observability and performance measurement practices, including metrics, dashboards, logs, and tracing.
Benefits
- Performance-driven compensation with bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
- Health insurance with 100% employee coverage and 90% dependent coverage, plus employer-paid life and disability insurance.
- Lifestyle wallet for wellness, learning, and other benefits spending.
- Fertility benefits, mental health benefits, parental leave, paid time off, sick time, and company holidays.
- Catered meals, office events, and comfortable workspaces.
- Bellevue, WA office-based role with in-person attendance expected at least three days per week.
Tech Stack
About Robinhood
Robinhood builds a mobile-first brokerage and cash management platform for retail investors to trade stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies, plus IRAs and a cash card. It makes money through interest on cash and margin, payment for order flow, crypto trading fees, and subscriptions like Robinhood Gold. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Robinhood Markets is a public company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker HOOD.