Robinhood's mission is to democratize finance for all.
The Brokerage Infrastructure team owns Robinhood's tier zero, mission-critical service responsible for all order processing, account management, and platform availability.
Systems handle millions of transactions per second across high-volume market events.
Responsibilities
Define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for the platform.
Lead and develop a team of 10+ engineers at various levels.
Drive modernization initiatives including resolving core storage bottlenecks.
Own reliability and uptime KPIs — including SLOs for subsecond order latency, high availability, capacity planning, and rapid incident recovery.
Collaborate across infrastructure and product teams to enforce reliability standards.
Proactively identify scalability and reliability risks.
Shape hiring, onboarding, and the engineering culture.
Requirements
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 (millions to tens of millions of QPS).
Demonstrated experience managing engineering teams of ~10+ engineers.
Experience leading architectural migrations or modernization efforts.
Strong ownership mentality.
Track record of maintaining system correctness and reliability in high-accountability production environments.
Strong stakeholder management skills.
Conditions
Hybrid attendance expected 3 days per week.
Performance driven compensation with multipliers, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
Top Tier benefits including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents.
Access to the Robinhood Employee Fund.
Access to the best AI tools on the market.
Lifestyle wallet.
Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.