Democratize finance for all, scaling banking services from millions to tens of millions, and building an elite infrastructure pod to power the next stage of Robinhood Banking.
Requirements
- Proven success scaling complex, high-availability infrastructure in production
- Breadth across infrastructure experience: DevOps, SRE, backend performance, developer experience, pure infra
- Track record of building fault-tolerant distributed systems and modernizing release/deployment pipelines
- Ability to lead a small, high-caliber pod to deliver outsized impact
- Hands-on leadership — you set direction, make the key calls, and build alongside your team
- Creativity and expertise to deliver lean, cost-effective solutions without compromising quality
- Strong judgment under pressure and skill at making high-impact technical decisions
Responsibilities
- Lead high-stakes scaling efforts to support millions more customers without breaking stride
- Set and drive the long-term technical strategy for Robinhood Banking Infrastructure
- Determine which parts of our infrastructure to keep, which to evolve, and lead those transitions from the front
- Design bulletproof solutions for mission-critical systems that require extreme availability
- Establish and implement best-in-class practices for load testing, canary releases, recovery tooling, and deployment pipelines
- Drive stability and scalability across all layers — databases, compute, deployments, and beyond
- Reduce operational friction by improving oncall, crafting elegant protocols, and streamlining incident response
Other
- Drive to take your career — and the systems you build — to the next level
- Leadership skills with the ambition to grow into Senior Staff+ or management roles
- Ability to work in-person at least 3 days per week in New York, NY or Menlo Park, CA office(s)
