Robinhood

finance

SeniorSoftwareEngineer,DataCompute

$196–230k Bellevue, Washington, United States
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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer, Data Compute at Robinhood. Skills: Spark, Airflow, Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, lakehouse fundamentals. Design and build scalable platform primitives for Spark and Airflow to support Robinhood’s global data infrastructure needs. Lead the migration and modernization of Spark workloads to serverless Databricks and Delta Lake architectures”

What You'll Achieve.

high reliability; cost efficiency; exceptional developer experience; support millions of daily jobs; meet the highest standards for performance and governance

Industry & Context.

finance
Problems you'll solve

Sharp problem-solvers

Eligibility Requirements

in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Extensive experience with large-scale Spark and Databricks or similar platform infrastructure, Deep expertise in data orchestration using Airflow for complex job lifecycle management, Proven track record with lakehouse fundamentals, including S3-based data lakes and table/storage formats such as Delta Lake and Parquet, Familiarity with query and serving infrastructure such as Trino, Pinot, or Hive Metastore, Ability to own multi-team platform reliability, including cost optimization and developer experience initiatives

What You'll Do.

Design and build scalable platform primitives for Spark and Airflow to support Robinhood’s global data infrastructure needs

Lead the migration and modernization of Spark workloads to serverless Databricks and Delta Lake architectures

Optimize compute resource utilization and efficiency to manage costs across large-scale distributed systems

Collaborate with internal teams across analytics and product engineering to deliver a seamless

self-serve data processing experience

Improve platform reliability and governance by implementing advanced metadata management and access controls via Unity Catalog and Trino

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with internal teams across analytics and product engineering to deliver a seamless, self-serve data processing experience; partner with engineering leaders to drive technical direction

Full Job Description

Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Data Compute team is a foundational infrastructure group at Robinhood, responsible for managing and evolving the company's large-scale Spark and Airflow environments. This team serves as a platform provider for all of Robinhood engineering, enabling everything from real-time analytics to critical compliance and operations workflows. We are currently leading major modernization efforts, migrating workloads to Databricks, adopting serverless patterns, and optimizing our lakehouse fundamentals. The team focuses on high reliability, cost efficiency, and delivering an exceptional developer experience for our internal customers! As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Compute team, you will be a key builder of our core ingestion and compute primitives. You will design and implement scalable infrastructure that supports millions of daily jobs while modernizing our platform onto Delta Lake and Unity Catalog. Your work will directly impact how data is processed across the entire company, from product engineering to analytics. You’ll partner with engineering leaders to drive technical direction and ensure our systems meet the highest standards for performance and governance. Thi

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