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Staff Software Engineer, Observability

Robinhood · Menlo Park, CA

Posted about 2 months ago

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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

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About this role

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Observability team at Robinhood, you will lead the development of the observability platform that ensures the reliability of the company's products and services. Your role involves defining the roadmap for observability, managing telemetry ingestion, and overseeing a team of engineers to build scalable solutions. You will also collaborate with various engineering teams to maintain high availability and performance standards for observability systems.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5
benefits
4/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proven track record of owning and delivering large-scale observability or infrastructure platform initiatives
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes and public cloud environments (AWS preferred)
  • Strong coding proficiency in one or more languages (Go, Python, or similar)
  • Experience owning an observability control plane or telemetry pipeline in a high-traffic production environment

Nice to have

  • Experience with the Vector data pipeline or equivalent high-throughput log/metrics routing tools
  • Familiarity with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, Humio, or Sentry

What you get

  • Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
  • Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching
  • 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
  • Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee
  • Lifestyle wallet for wellness, learning, and more
  • Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits

Worth weighing

  • In-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week
  • High expectations and a fast-paced environment may not suit everyone

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Listed by Robinhood on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-08. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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