Hiring: Staff Software Engineer, Observability Company: Robinhood Location: Menlo Park, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-11 13:39:17 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Data Pipeline, Grafana, Honeycomb, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Python, Sentry, Spark About the job Experience: •8+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of owning and delivering large-scale observability or infrastructure platform initiatives. Required Skills: •Define and execute the full-stack observability roadmap, establishing a clear technical vision for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting infrastructure across Robinhood's engineering organization. •Own and evolve the observability control plane, including telemetry ingestion pipelines, cost management strategies, and the tooling that ensures observability components remain highly available. •Lead and collaborate with a team of six engineers to build scalable, self-service observability solutions that enable product and infrastructure teams to move faster with greater confidence. •Establish and maintain SLOs for observability systems that meet or exceed Robinhood's 99.9% uptime target, ensuring the observability platform is as reliable as the services it monitors. •Partner with the Robinhood Command Center and engineering teams across the organization to align on dependency mapping, incident response workflows, and observability standards. Qualifications: •Deep expertise in Kubernetes and public cloud environments (AWS preferred), with the ability to architect and operate distributed systems at scale regardless of specific vendor tooling. •Strong coding proficiency in one or more languages (Go, Python, or similar) with experience integrating observability agents, libraries, and instrumentation directly into production codebases. •Demonstrated experience owning an observability control plane or telemetry pipeline — including ingestion cost management, cardinality control, and signal routing — in a high-traffic production environment. Compensation: •$230,000 - $270,000 / year •Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!