Staff Software Engineer, Observability

Robinhood
Menlo Park
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Problem-solving","Collaboration","Ownership","Systems thinking"]

Lead Robinhood’s full-stack observability roadmap and technical vision for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting. Own the observability control plane end-to-end, including telemetry ingestion pipelines, cost-efficient strategies, and highly available observability components. You’ll lead a team of six engineers to build scalable self-serve observability solutions, establish SLOs to meet 99.9% uptime, and partner with the Command Center on incident workflows and standards.

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Robinhood
Robinhood
1 month ago

Staff Software Engineer, Observability

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Job Summary

Lead Robinhood’s full-stack observability roadmap and technical vision for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting. Own the observability control plane end-to-end, including telemetry ingestion pipelines, cost-efficient strategies, and highly available observability components. You’ll lead a team of six engineers to build scalable self-serve observability solutions, establish SLOs to meet 99.9% uptime, and partner with the Command Center on incident workflows and standards.
Location: Menlo Park
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and execute the full-stack observability roadmap across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting infrastructure.
  • •Own and evolve the observability control plane, including telemetry ingestion pipelines, cost management, and availability of observability tooling.
  • •Lead and collaborate with six engineers to build scalable, self-service observability solutions for product and infrastructure teams.
  • •Establish and maintain SLOs for observability systems to meet or exceed a 99.9% uptime target.
  • •Partner with the Robinhood Command Center and engineering teams on dependency mapping, incident response workflows, and observability standards.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:401kHealth InsurancePaid LeaveParental LeaveLife InsuranceDisability InsuranceFertility Benefits

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of software engineering experience owning and delivering large-scale observability or infrastructure platform initiatives.
  • •Deep expertise in Kubernetes and public cloud environments (AWS preferred), architecting and operating distributed systems at scale.
  • •Strong coding proficiency in Go, Python, or similar, with experience integrating observability agents and instrumentation into production codebases.
  • •Experience owning an observability control plane or telemetry pipeline, including ingestion cost management, cardinality control, and signal routing in high-traffic environments.
  • •Experience with the Vector data pipeline (or equivalent high-throughput log/metrics routing tools) and familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, Humio, or Sentry.
Experience:8+ yearsObservabilityInfrastructure platformsKubernetesPublic cloud
Skills:Technical leadershipProblem-solvingCollaborationOwnershipSystems thinking
Languages:English
Tech Stack:KubernetesAWSGoPythonVectorPrometheusGrafanaHoneycombHumioSentry

Company Brief

Robinhood
Commission-free trading platform offering stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies, plus cash management and retirement products. Aims to democratize finance through easy-to-use mobile and web apps for retail investors.
Industry: Trading Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Menlo Park, United States
Founded: 2013
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