Senior Software Engineer - Streaming Platform

About the team:

The preferred location for this position is in or around Robinhood's offices in Menlo Park, CA or Seattle, WA or New York City, NY, but remote work in limited geographies within the U.S. may be considered. Check with your recruiter for more information.

As a Software Engineer on the Streaming Platform Team, you'll be building large scale distributed systems powering nearly all microservice communication and stream processing across the company.

We build platforms to enable real-time streaming, stateful stream processing, and database change data capture. We heavily rely on open source frameworks and build our platforms on top of them. These platforms power everything from placing a trade on the Robinhood app, to new products like IPO Access, to critical day to day business operations.

Our customers are product engineers, infrastructure engineers, ML engineers, data engineers, data scientists, and analysts with Robinhood. We collaborate closely with them to provide reliable, secure, and delightful platforms that enable them to unlock new ways of solving problems.

Our teams are fairly new, and we're just getting started to modernize data infra inside Robinhood. We would love for you to join us as we build the next generation of data platforms.

What you’ll do day-to-day:

• Designing, operating, integrating, and developing data infrastructure platforms
• Collaborating closely with our internal customers to develop highly effective platforms
• Working with open source technologies like Kafka, Flink, and Debezium (with opportunities to contribute back to the community!)
• Building a phenomenal customer experience for developers using the infrastructure you build
• Mentoring and coaching others to drive successful projects across the team

About you:

• 4+ years of software engineering experience.
• Fluent in one or more programming languages (e.g. Go, Python, Java)
• Experience with building scalable distributed systems, both from scratch as well as on open source frameworks.
• Passionate about building platforms for developers and data professionals
• Deep understanding of the tradeoffs between different data tools and technologies
• Strong verbal and communication skills.
• Comfortable with working on containerized technologies

Bonus points:

• Passion for working and learning in a fast-growing company
• Proven experience building and handling large scale data systems
• You have opinions on Kafka vs Kinesis, Spark vs Flink
• Contributions to open source projects like Kafka, Spark, Hudi, Flink e.t.c.
• Love talking to other engineers and enjoy debugging issues in all parts of the stack

Technologies we use:

• Kafka
• Flink
• Spark
• Hudi
• Docker and Kubernetes
• AWS

The expected salary range for this role is based on the location where the work will be performed and is aligned to one of 3 compensation zones. This role is also eligible to participate in a Robinhood bonus plan and Robinhood’s equity plan.

US Zone 1: $187000 - $220000
US Zone 2: $165000 - $194000
US Zone 3: $146000 - $172000