Software Developer

About the team + role

The Observability Team is responsible for all things observability at Robinhood, encompassing metrics, logging, tracing, error handling, and alerting. The team builds and maintains a platform that allows other development teams to seamlessly integrate observability into their services, ensuring issues are detected and resolved with minimal friction.

Our team uses multiple vendor solutions to provide a seamless observability experience for developers at Robinhood.

We are looking for an experienced Software Developer to observability initiatives. Our team plays a critical role in enabling our engineering teams to deliver reliable and performant software by providing a robust observability platform. As a developer on this team, you will help driving the strategy and vision for observability at Robinhood, ensuring our platform is world-class, scalable, and cost-efficient.

The role is located in the office location(s) listed on this job description which will align with our in-office working environment. Please connect with your recruiter for more information regarding our in-office philosophy and expectations.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain a secure, reliable and scalable platform at Robinhood that will provide observability for developers for all of their services
• Design large scale systems within the team, making the right tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability.
• Proactively identify and drive optimizations and improvements to the Observability infrastructure and related systems.
• Identify, debug, root cause and solve problems that are unique to Observability Platform.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand their needs, and refine the platform.

What you bring

• 3+ years of Software Engineering experience.
• You have experience building infrastructure and large scale distributed systems.
• You are able to solve complex engineering problems that deliver results which help the team to achieve its objectives.
• You have strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Our team is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming interview experience for all candidates. If you require a specific accommodation during the application or interview process due to a physical or mental condition, please complete this Applicant Accommodation Form to notify our team. The form should only be completed if you need a specific accommodation.