Robinhood

Financial Services

SeniorSoftwareEngineer,StreamingPlatform

$196–230k Bellevue, Washington, United States
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Platform at Robinhood. Skills: Distributed systems, Data streaming, Event processing. Design distributed data streaming platforms. Operate distributed data streaming platforms”

Industry & Context.

Financial Services

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years software engineering, Building distributed systems at scale, Kafka, Flink, Debezium proficiency, Designing event-driven architectures, Implementing stream processing systems

Nice to Have

Platform engineering passion, Great developer experiences passion

What You'll Do.

Design distributed data streaming platforms

Operate distributed data streaming platforms

Develop secure systems

Develop performant systems

Develop highly reliable systems

Collaborate with product teams

Collaborate with infrastructure teams

Collaborate with data teams

Collaborate with ML teams

Build tools for developers

Create documentation for developers

Mentor other engineers

Support other engineers

Drive architectural decisions

Drive technical strategy

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Product teams; Infrastructure teams; Data teams; ML teams

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 Streaming Platform team’s mission is to enable real-time, reliable, and scalable data streaming across Robinhood’s products and infrastructure. We build and maintain foundational platforms that power communication between services and unlock streaming analytics across the company. Our systems are critical to Robinhood’s ability to build innovative financial products and deliver seamless experiences to our customers! As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll design, develop, and operate distributed systems that support core data pipelines and real-time event processing. You’ll collaborate with engineers across product, data, and ML teams to scale our platform, improve reliability, and enhance the developer experience across the company. Here’s some of the exciting challenges the team has been solving: Robinhood’s Use of WarpStream for Logging Robinhood’s Kafka Journey from EC2 to Kubernetes Robinhood’s Kafka Proxy This role is based in our Bellevue, WA office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intention

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