20 hours ago
Base Salary
$196k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build forecast-driven capacity planning using traffic history, load tests, and known business events.
- Design an Aurora capacity planner that adjusts reader counts and writer instance sizes based on demand signals.
- Rightsize RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, and EBS resources based on utilization, IOPS, throughput, and idle capacity.
- Manage S3 storage classes, Intelligent-Tiering, lifecycle and retention policies, versions, incomplete uploads, and request costs.
- Convert infrastructure recommendations into guarded, progressively rolled-out automation with rollback capabilities.
- Measure savings, forecast accuracy, utilization, and post-event capacity, and share forecasts with compute rightsizing systems.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience operating AWS storage and databases at scale, especially Aurora or RDS with MySQL or PostgreSQL and S3.
- Experience with capacity planning, time-series demand forecasting, load testing, and translating traffic into infrastructure sizing.
- Demonstrated ability to rightsize infrastructure using utilization data without reducing latency or availability.
- Strong Python or Go engineering experience building production infrastructure automation with guardrails, progressive rollout, and rollback.
- Familiarity with AWS storage and database pricing, including S3 pricing, Aurora I/O-Optimized versus Standard, and Reserved Instances, is preferred.
- Experience with bursty event-driven workloads or Spark, Airflow, or Kubernetes is preferred.
Benefits
- Performance-driven compensation includes bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
- Benefits include paid employee health insurance, dependent coverage, life and disability insurance, fertility benefits, mental health benefits, paid time off, holidays, sick time, and parental leave.
- A flexible lifestyle wallet supports wellness, learning, and other spending.
- The role is based in Bellevue, WA, with in-person attendance expected at least three days per week.
- The office provides catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
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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.