Robinhood
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform
$264K–$310K
Bellevue, WA +2 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Mar 18, 2026
- Location
- Bellevue, WA
Menlo Park, CA
Toronto, Canada - Experience
- Extensive experience building and scaling distributed systems; no specific number of years stated.
About the job
Leads technical direction and cross-team execution for Robinhood’s storage, streaming, and data lake platforms, building scalable systems for transactional, real-time, and analytical workloads.
What you'll do
- Set architecture across storage, streaming, and data lake platforms; design distributed systems such as sharding, query routing, and event-processing pipelines.
- Improve data freshness and latency by evolving streaming and ingestion toward near-real-time processing.
- Align platform strategy and roadmaps across teams, and lead initiatives delivering new streaming, CDC, and data-processing capabilities.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in at least two of storage systems, streaming platforms, or data lake / large-scale data processing.
- Strong understanding of database systems such as PostgreSQL and/or DynamoDB, including replication, sharding, and performance optimization.
- Experience with streaming and event-driven architectures using Kafka, Flink, or similar systems; familiarity with Spark, Delta Lake, or equivalent systems.
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives, define long-term architecture, and collaborate across multiple teams.
Pay
$264,000 — $310,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Postgres, DynamoDB, Delta Lake, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Flink, Spark
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