Staff Software Engineer, Observability
Core
Lead the design and operation of Robinhood's full-stack observability platform (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) to ensure 99.9% uptime and deep visibility into infrastructure health.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Technical Lead)
Builds
Full-stack observability control plane, telemetry ingestion pipelines, and self-service observability solutions.
Domain
Fintech / Distributed Systems / Observability
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes, public cloud (AWS), Go/Python, observability control plane ownership, telemetry pipeline architecture, SLO definition, incident response workflows
Preferred skills
Vector data pipeline, Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, Humio, Sentry, AI-driven observability approaches
Responsibilities
Define and execute the full-stack observability roadmap; Own and evolve the observability control plane including cost management; Lead a team of six engineers to build scalable solutions; Establish and maintain SLOs for observability systems; Partner with Command Center and engineering teams on dependency mapping and standards
Seniority
Staff, technical lead with team ownership