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Robinhood

Senior Software Engineer, Observability

$153K–$230K

Menlo Park, CA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026

Location
Menlo Park, CA
Bellevue, WA
New York, NY
Experience
5+ years of software engineering experience.

About the job

Lead the strategy, architecture, and operation of Robinhood’s full-stack observability platform, including its control plane and telemetry pipelines.

What you'll do

  • Set the observability roadmap for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting; own and evolve the control plane and telemetry pipelines.
  • Lead and collaborate with six engineers to deliver scalable, self-service observability solutions and manage telemetry costs.
  • Establish SLOs targeting at least 99.9% uptime and partner on dependency mapping, incident response, and observability standards.

What they ask for

  • Proven track record owning and delivering large-scale observability or infrastructure platform initiatives.
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes and public cloud environments; AWS preferred.
  • Proficiency in Go, Python, or a similar language, including integrating observability instrumentation into production codebases.
  • Experience owning an observability control plane or telemetry pipeline, including ingestion cost management, cardinality control, and signal routing, in a high-traffic production environment.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Vector or equivalent high-throughput log/metrics routing tools.
  • Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, Humio, or Sentry.

Pay

$196,000 — $230,000 USD (base salary); $172,000 — $202,000 USD (base salary); $153,000 — $179,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Kubernetes, AWS, Go, Python, Vector, Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb

AI focus

Integrate AI-driven approaches to accelerate progress toward full-stack observability.

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First seen Oct 30, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)