Senior Software Engineer, Load and Fault Environments

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Load and Fault Environments team at Robinhood, you design and build the infrastructure that lets Robinhood's engineers simulate load, inject faults, and validate system behavior under stress at the scale of a fast-growing financial platform. You'll own meaningful components of the load testing and fault injection platform, write production-quality code, and collaborate with engineers across infrastructure and product teams to ensure the tooling you build gets adopted and drives real reliability improvements.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain load testing and fault injection infrastructure that enables engineering teams across Robinhood to validate system resilience as part of their standard development workflow.
• Own platform components end-to-end from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, and iteration, ensuring the tools you build are reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering teams to understand their resilience testing needs, translate those needs into platform capabilities, and drive adoption of shared tooling.
• Contribute to defining steady-state hypotheses, blast radius controls, and fault injection primitives that make chaos experiments safe, repeatable, and actionable at scale.
• Write clean, well-tested code and participate in technical design discussions that raise the engineering bar across the team.

What you bring

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong coding skills in Python, Go, or a similar language.
• Experience designing or contributing to load testing, fault injection, chaos engineering, or developer productivity infrastructure in a distributed systems environment.
• A solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: how services fail, how failures propagate, and how to design experiments that surface meaningful signal without causing unintended outages.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure.
• A builder's approach to developer tooling: you care about ergonomics, adoption, and making it easy for other engineers to do the right thing.

Nice to have

• Experience integrating resilience tooling into CI/CD pipelines.

What we offer

• Base pay range dependent on location: $196,000-$230,000 USD (Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; Bellevue, WA; Washington, DC), $172,000-$202,000 USD (Denver, CO; Westlake, TX; Chicago, IL), or $153,000-$179,000 USD (Lake Mary, FL; Clearwater, FL; Gainesville, FL).
• Bonus opportunities and equity ownership.
• 401(k) matching.
• 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents.
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
• A lifestyle wallet offering flexible benefits spending for wellness, learning, and more.
• Paid time off including company holidays, sick time, parental leave, and more.
• Access to AI tools and continuous AI skill-building opportunities.
• Catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces at the office.

About Robinhood

Robinhood is building infrastructure to democratize finance. The company operates within the Developer Infrastructure organization, with teams focused on giving engineering teams the tools they need to test services under real-world conditions. This role is based in the Menlo Park, CA office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week.