Senior Software Engineer, Robinhood
Plus bonus programs & equity
3+ days a week in office (Menlo Park, CA)
Commission-free stock trading & investing app
Be an early applicant
Commission-free stock trading & investing app
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Plus bonus programs & equity
3+ days a week in office (Menlo Park, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To democratize finance for all.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong coding skills in Python, Go, or a similar language — this role requires building production systems, not just operating them
- Experience designing or contributing to load testing, fault injection, chaos engineering, or developer productivity infrastructure in a distributed systems environment
- Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals — how services fail, how failures propagate, and how to design experiments that surface meaningful signal without causing unintended outages
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure; experience integrating resilience tooling into CI/CD pipelines is a plus
- A builder's approach to developer tooling — you care about ergonomics, adoption, and making it easy for other engineers to do the right thing
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Load and Fault Environments team, you will design and build the infrastructure that lets Robinhood's engineers simulate load, inject faults, and validate system behavior under stress — at the scale of a fast-growing financial platform
- You'll own meaningful components of the load testing and fault injection platform, write production-quality code, and collaborate with engineers across infrastructure and product teams to ensure the tooling you build gets adopted and drives real reliability improvements
- This is a high-impact individual contributor role where your work directly shapes how Robinhood builds resilient systems!
- This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week
- Design, build, and maintain load testing and fault injection infrastructure that enables engineering teams across Robinhood to validate system resilience as part of their standard development workflow
- Own platform components end-to-end — from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, and iteration — ensuring the tools you build are reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly
- Collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering teams to understand their resilience testing needs, translate those needs into platform capabilities, and drive adoption of shared tooling
- Contribute to defining steady-state hypotheses, blast radius controls, and fault injection primitives that make chaos experiments safe, repeatable, and actionable at scale
- Write clean, well-tested code and participate in technical design discussions that raise the engineering bar across the team
Our take
For years, traditional brokers ruled the share trading realm, charging hefty fees that locked out everyday investors. Robinhood emerged as a disruptor, offering commission-free trading and opening the door to a new generation. Since then, expectations have continued to evolve, with investors looking not just to lower costs, but for simpler tools, clearer information, and guidance that makes the market easier to understand.
Robinhood was built to meet those changing expectations, designed from the start as a mobile-first platform that makes investor more accessible and less intimidating for people at every stage of their financial journey. Through its app, users can trade stocks and other financial instruments while benefiting from a clean interface and built-in educational support, helping them move from curiosity to confidence without unnecessary complexity.
Recently, Robinhood has strenghtned its impact too, particularly in the UK. With the launch of AI-powered Digests within its Robinhood Cortex assistant that helps users understand what's driving stock movements in plain English, while upcoming options trading and expanded educational resources add flexibility and depth. Together, these steps position Robinhood as a platform evolving alongside its users, blending technology and education to stay ahead in an ever-changing investment landscape.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Feb 2021
$2.4bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jan 2021
$1bn
LATE VC
Total funding: $5.6bn
Company HQ
Downtown Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Vlad Tenev
(Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman)Studied Mathematics at Stanford University, where they met Baiju. Dropped out of a PhD to start Robinhood. Alongside Robinhood, Vlad is also the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Harmonic.
Baiju B.
(Co-Founder)Studied Mathematics and Physics at Stanford University, where they met their Vlad and co-founded Robinhood in 2012. Baiju is also the Founder and CEO of Aetherflux.
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