As a Staff Software Engineer on the Storage Platform team at Robinhood, you will design and evolve the core infrastructure that supports the company's storage systems. This role focuses on building and operating distributed storage systems, ensuring high availability and performance for millions of users. You will lead initiatives such as horizontal sharding and cross-shard transactions, directly impacting system reliability and customer-facing products. The team values ethics and high performance, making it an exciting environment for ambitious individuals.

• Deep expertise in PostgreSQL, with a preference for Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Experience building or operating distributed systems, including horizontal sharding and replication.
• Proficiency in Go and/or Rust, with experience in backend or infrastructure services.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and AWS managed services like RDS and DynamoDB.
• Strong understanding of system reliability and performance tuning in high-scale production environments.

• Design and implement distributed storage systems, including sharding strategies and query routing layers.
• Improve availability, failover, and disaster recovery capabilities across multi-region deployments.
• Build and enhance control plane automation that manages thousands of databases and caching clusters.
• Optimize database performance and throughput by analyzing query patterns and improving connection pooling.
• Partner with product and infrastructure teams to standardize how services connect to storage systems.