Staff Software Engineer, Storage Platform

What this role involves

This role is for a Staff Software Engineer on the Storage Platform team at Robinhood, focusing on designing and implementing distributed storage systems including sharding, query routing, and database proxy services. The engineer will improve availability, performance, and cost efficiency across multi-region deployments, and build control plane automation for thousands of databases and caching clusters. This is a hybrid role based in Bellevue, WA, requiring deep expertise in PostgreSQL and relational database internals.

Skills this posting asks for

• postgresql
• aurora
• dynamodb
• distributed systems
• database proxy
• sharding
• query routing
• automation
• observability
• connection pooling
• multi-region
• failover
• disaster recovery
• performance optimization

Requirements

• Level: staff
• Remote policy: hybrid

From the employer’s posting

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