About the job
Be Part of the Financial Revolution.
At Robinhood, we aim to make finance accessible to everyone. As we anticipate a staggering $124 trillion in assets will be passed down to future generations in the coming decades, we invite you to join us at the forefront of this monumental shift.
About Our Team and Your Role
We are cultivating an exceptional team dedicated to tackling the most pressing challenges in finance using cutting-edge technology. We seek innovative thinkers, adept problem-solvers, and proactive builders ready to make a significant impact. At Robinhood, you won't find complacency; instead, you'll discover an environment where ambitious individuals accomplish their best work. Our fast-paced, high-performing team places ethics at the core of our mission, with high expectations and even higher rewards.
The Efficiency Engineering team is committed to maximizing the performance, resource utilization, and cost efficiency of Robinhood's cloud infrastructure. We create systems that render infrastructure usage measurable, comprehensible, and actionable, empowering engineering teams to operate services that are optimally sized, high-performing, and financially sustainable. By marrying deep systems expertise with practical tooling, we ensure that every dollar spent on infrastructure directly enhances product reliability and customer satisfaction!
As a Senior Software Engineer on our Efficiency Engineering team, you will architect and develop software that uncovers performance inefficiencies, minimizes waste, and boosts utilization across AWS and Kubernetes environments. Your responsibilities will include crafting telemetry pipelines, optimization frameworks, and automated controls that enhance system performance while reducing costs per workload. Your contributions will span distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and application performance layers, aiding teams in making informed decisions regarding latency, reliability, and expenditure. This role will have a direct impact on enhancing infrastructure efficiency across a large-scale microservices architecture!
This position is based in our Bellevue, WA office, with in-person attendance required for a minimum of 3 days each week.
At Robinhood, we believe in the transformative power of in-person collaboration to accelerate progress, ignite innovation, and foster community. Our office environment is designed to be intentional, invigorating, and built to support our high-achieving teams.

