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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 66 days Robinhood's roles stay open a median of 66 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 5% of Robinhood's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Robinhood
- high 112 stale, 4 reposted of 130 open
- Hiring momentum
- 190 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-08
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Robinhood's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Robinhood.
About this role
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Custody Services team, you will focus on building and maintaining the infrastructure for crypto processing, wallet management, and third-party integrations. Your responsibilities will include automating infrastructure management, running blockchain nodes, and implementing security controls. You will also participate in an on-call rotation to ensure system reliability and availability.
- benefits
- 4/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Robinhood as an employer.
What you need
- Senior-level experience running cloud infrastructure (AWS) in production
- Experience managing blockchain nodes in production
- Hands-on experience with Ansible, Terraform, or similar configuration management and Infrastructure as Code tooling
- Experience running containerized workloads on Kubernetes and Docker
- Solid Python and/or Go skills, with real production experience
- A strong security focus — you've worked on systems where key management and access control are critical
Nice to have
- Experience integrating with third-party custodians like BitGo or Fireblocks
What you get
- Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact and bonus programs
- Top tier benefits to fuel your work, including supplemental health insurance, ancillary insurance, and mental health support programs
- Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee, technical or not
- Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible employer-paid benefits spending account expenses beyond traditional benefits such as wellness, childcare, learning, and more
- Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, paid volunteer time off, parental leave, and more!
Worth weighing
- In-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week
- Participation in an on-call rotation required
- Role involves a strong focus on security and infrastructure management
- Stack includes AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Python, which may be seen as modern but also requires a strong security focus
Summarised from Robinhood's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Robinhood on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-08. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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