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# Senior Software Engineer, Observability

- **Company:** Robinhood
- **Location:** West Menlo Park, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $196,000.0 - $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Computer Programming, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Prometheus, Software Engineering, Grafana, Kubernetes, Sentry, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=6c5c8aa5d50dd24e

## About the Role

* 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of owning and delivering large-scale observability or infrastructure platform initiatives.
 * Deep expertise in Kubernetes and public cloud environments (AWS preferred), with the ability to architect and operate distributed systems at scale regardless of specific vendor tooling.
 * Strong coding proficiency in one or more languages (Go, Python, or similar) with experience integrating observability agents, libraries, and instrumentation directly into production codebases.
 * Demonstrated experience owning an observability control plane or telemetry pipeline - including ingestion cost management, cardinality control, and signal routing - in a high-traffic production environment.
 * Experience with the Vector data pipeline (or equivalent high-throughput log/metrics routing tools) and familiarity with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, Humio, or Sentry is a plus.

## Description

* Define and execute the full-stack observability roadmap, establishing a clear technical vision for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting infrastructure across Robinhood's engineering organization.
 * Own and evolve the observability control plane, including telemetry ingestion pipelines, cost management strategies, and the tooling that ensures observability components remain highly available.
 * Lead and collaborate with a team of six engineers to build scalable, self-service observability solutions that enable product and infrastructure teams to move faster with greater confidence.
 * Establish and maintain SLOs for observability systems that meet or exceed Robinhood's 99.9% uptime target, ensuring the observability platform is as reliable as the services it monitors.
 * Partner with the Robinhood Command Center and engineering teams across the organization to align on dependency mapping, incident response workflows, and observability standards.