Senior Software Engineer, Capacity & Efficiency
Core
Build forecast-driven capacity planning and automation for Robinhood's storage and database fleet (Aurora, S3, caches) to manage AWS cloud spend and ensure reliability during market peaks.
Role type
Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure & FinOps)
Builds
Automated capacity planning systems, rightsizing automation for databases and storage, and lifecycle management policies for S3.
Domain
FinTech, Cloud Infrastructure, AWS
Required skills
AWS storage and databases (Aurora, RDS, S3, ElastiCache, DynamoDB), capacity planning and forecasting, infrastructure automation (Python/Go), time-series demand modeling, rightsizing from utilization data.
Preferred skills
Bursty/event-driven workloads, Spark, Airflow, Kubernetes, AWS pricing optimization.
Technologies
AWS (Aurora, S3, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, EBS, Storage Lens), Python, Go.
Responsibilities
Design capacity planners for Aurora based on demand signals; rightsize databases, caches, and block storage; manage S3 efficiency via lifecycle rules and storage classes; convert recommendations to closed-loop automation; measure cost and reliability outcomes.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
