Staff Software Engineer Observability
Robinhood helps users invest in stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies through commission-free trading with no minimum account requirements.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
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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 roadmap for full-stack observability, own the observability control plane, manage telemetry ingestion and costs, and build highly available observability systems. You will lead six engineers, establish service-level objectives, and coordinate dependency mapping, incident response, and observability standards.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Observability platforms
- Infrastructure platforms
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Public cloud environments
- Distributed systems
- Go
- Python
- Observability agents
- Instrumentation
- Telemetry pipelines
- Ingestion cost management
- Cardinality control
- Signal routing
- Vector
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Honeycomb
- Humio
- Sentry
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the full-stack observability roadmap
- Own and evolve the observability control plane
- Manage telemetry ingestion pipelines
- Manage observability costs
- Lead a team of six engineers
- Build self-service observability solutions
- Establish observability service-level objectives
- Maintain 99.9% uptime
- Coordinate dependency mapping
- Align incident response workflows
- Establish observability standards
Benefits
- 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
- Access to AI tools and continuous AI skill-building
- Lifestyle wallet for wellness and learning
- Employer-paid life insurance
- Employer-paid disability insurance
- Fertility benefits
- Mental health benefits
- Company holidays
- Paid time off
- Sick time
- Parental leave
- Catered meals
- Events
- Comfortable workspaces
- Bonus programs
- Equity ownership
- 401(k) matching
