Staff Software Engineer (DevX, Developer Infrastructure)
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- We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact
- Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do
- Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The DevX team’s mission is to build and operate the core developer infrastructure at Robinhood
- Our team owns and scales the systems that thousands of engineers rely on daily, partnering with software developers across the company to make development fast, reliable, and cost-efficient
- We are a team that takes pride in technical excellence, platform reliability, and building tools that have an outsized impact on engineering velocity across the entire organization!
- As a Staff Software Engineer on the DevX team, you will serve as a technical leader for our build and developer infrastructure, driving the strategy and execution of the systems thousands of engineers depend on every day
- Your work will span our build systems, CI pipelines, and remote development environments, ensuring engineers can code, test, and build with speed, safety, and reliability at scale
- You will collaborate with engineering teams across Robinhood to eliminate developer friction, raise the bar for engineering productivity, and shape the long-term direction of our developer ecosystem
- This is a high-visibility opportunity to set new standards of engineering efficiency and mentor the next generation of infrastructure engineers
- Architect the long-term technical strategy and roadmap for core developer infrastructure, including CI, SCM, and development environments, ensuring systems scale reliably as engineering teams grow
- Build and maintain robust, scalable infrastructure capable of handling increasing operational loads with a relentless focus on speed, safety, and reliability
- Lead the strategy for developer onboarding and remote development environments, reducing time-to-first-commit and making it effortless for engineers to be productive from day one
- Collaborate with engineering teams to standardize build and CI patterns, eliminate developer friction, and champion high engineering standards across the organization
- Provide technical mentorship to engineers across the team, conducting rigorous design reviews and establishing best-practice operational guidelines
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to advocate for build and CI tooling adoption, drive onboarding improvements, and mentor other engineers
- Proven ability to guide complex technical initiatives from conception to completion, aligning technical execution with company-wide objectives
- Deep expertise in modern build systems such as Bazel and distributed or remote build execution, with a strong understanding of CI/CD at scale
- Strong programming proficiency in Go or Python, with a track record of building reliable, maintainable system software
- Extensive experience designing, scaling, and operating critical developer infrastructure or high-volume build and CI systems in production environments