Senior Software Engineer Observability
Robinhood helps users invest in stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies through commission-free trading with no minimum account requirements.
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About Robinhood
Robinhood helps retail investors access financial markets through commission-free trading of stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies. With it, users can invest with no account minimums, earn rewards through retirement accounts with matching contributions, and access advanced trading tools. Robinhood democratizes investing by making financial markets accessible to everyone, not just wealthy investors.
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About the Role
You will lead the observability roadmap and evolve the control plane for telemetry ingestion, cost management, and high availability. You will guide six engineers, establish reliability objectives, build scalable self-service tooling, and coordinate observability standards and incident-response workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience delivering large-scale observability or infrastructure-platform initiatives
- Kubernetes expertise
- Public-cloud expertise, preferably AWS
- Experience architecting and operating distributed systems
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar languages
- Experience integrating observability agents, libraries, and instrumentation into production codebases
- Experience with observability control planes or telemetry pipelines
- Knowledge of ingestion cost management, cardinality control, and signal routing
- Experience with Vector or equivalent high-throughput telemetry-routing tools
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, Humio, or Sentry
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the full-stack observability roadmap
- Establish technical direction for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting infrastructure
- Own and evolve the observability control plane and telemetry-ingestion pipelines
- Develop cost-management strategies and highly available observability tooling
- Lead and collaborate with six engineers
- Build scalable, self-service observability solutions
- Establish and maintain observability-system SLOs supporting a 99.9% uptime target
- Coordinate dependency mapping, incident-response workflows, and observability standards
Benefits
- Performance-driven compensation
- Bonus programs
- Equity ownership
- 401(k) matching
- 100% paid health insurance for employees
- 90% health-insurance coverage for dependents
- Access to AI tools
- Lifestyle wallet
- Employer-paid life insurance
- Employer-paid disability insurance
- Fertility benefits
- Mental health benefits
- Company holidays
- Paid time off
- Sick time
- Parental leave
- Catered meals
- Office events
