Staff Software Engineer - Data Lake Ingestion

Robinhood Markets is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development of data ingestion pipelines that process petabytes of data and billions of events daily. The role is part of a team whose mission is to empower informed decision-making, foster innovation, and drive organizational excellence through a reliable, timely, efficient, and privacy-aware Data Lake and Ingestion Infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner to influence and shape the vision, strategy, and adoption of current and future technologies.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient and reliable batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Lead initiatives to improve data quality, efficiency, and privacy at scale.
• Forge trusting cross-functional partnerships across Robinhood.
• Establish best practices and standards for data operations and lifecycle management.
• Mentor engineers at Robinhood, both formally and informally.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience as a proven staff engineer with expertise in planning and leading large projects, focused on data infrastructure.
• Proficiency in data engineering disciplines, including data and stream processing technologies, data serialization formats, workflow orchestration tools, and Data Stores.
• Strong coding skills in Python, Java, Go or similar languages.
• Experience with at least one major cloud suite of offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Proven experience in contributing to open-source technologies.

Robinhood offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion. The role is preferably located in one of the office locations listed (Menlo Park, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY) but may be eligible for remote work in limited geographies within the US.

Join Robinhood in their mission to democratize finance for all and be part of shaping the future of financial technology.