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# Staff Software Engineer, Brokerage Infra

- **Company:** Robinhood
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $230,000.0 - $270,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** System Availability, Low Latency
- **Published:** October 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/9e242653-e46e-4faa-967d-58e9b2846e17

## About the Role

* 10+ years of professional engineering experience, with several years at the staff level and prior Team Lead experience
 * Deep expertise with tier zero or mission-critical systems at significant scale - you've contributed to or maintained systems operating at millions to tens of millions of QPS
 * Demonstrated experience managing engineering teams of ~10+ engineers, including senior and staff-level ICs
 * Experience leading architectural migrations or modernization efforts (e.g., language rewrites, traffic routing simplification, storage improvements)
 * Strong ownership mentality: you question scalability assumptions, enforce rigorous engineering processes, and think through edge cases others miss
 * Track record of maintaining system correctness and reliability in high-accountability production environments (financial order execution, account management, or similar)
 * Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and align across infrastructure and product organizations

## Description

* Define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for the platform, Robinhood's tier zero order processing and account management system
 * Lead and develop a team of 10+ engineers at various levels, coaching and mentoring emerging leaders, setting a high technical bar, and fostering a culture of ownership and accountability
 * Drive modernization initiatives including and resolving core storage bottlenecks
 * Own reliability and uptime KPIs - including SLOs for subsecond order latency, high availability, capacity planning, and rapid incident recovery during high-volume trading events
 * Collaborate across infrastructure and product teams to enforce reliability standards and align on technical direction
 * Proactively identify scalability and reliability risks, champion preventative solutions, and coordinate fast, effective incident response
 * Shape hiring, onboarding, and the engineering culture as the platform continues to scale