Staff Software Engineer, Storage Platform at Robinhood
Bellevue, WA
$230,000–$270,000
Jul 2, 2026
Bellevue, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Staff Software Engineer role on the Storage Platform team, responsible for designing and evolving core database infrastructure — including sharding, query routing, connection pooling, and cross-shard transactions — across relational, key-value, and caching systems. The work involves managing thousands of databases and hundreds of caching clusters at scale, with a strong focus on availability, failover, and multi-region reliability. Suits engineers with deep PostgreSQL and distributed systems expertise, ideally comfortable with Go and/or Rust and cloud-managed infrastructure.
Staff level · Bellevue, WA · Full-time
Pay in the description: $230,000–$270,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 140 people in the Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 55–200
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role sits at the intersection of software engineering (building proxy services, SDKs, control plane automation in Go/Rust) and database/storage platform architecture — hence the Medium confidence and runner-up SOC 15-1243 (Database Architects). The primary day-to-day work is writing and shipping infrastructure software, which tips it to 15-1252.
Aurora PostgreSQL is listed as 'preferred' within the PostgreSQL requirement ('Aurora PostgreSQL preferred'), so it is also surfaced separately as a preferred skill.
The compensation figures shown ($230,000–$270,000) are for Zone 1 (Menlo Park CA / New York NY / Bellevue WA / Washington DC). Zone 2 is $203,000–$238,000 and Zone 3 is $180,000–$211,000; the role is based in Bellevue WA (Zone 1).
No minimum total years of experience is stated explicitly in the posting.
The role requires in-office attendance at least 3 days per week in Bellevue, WA — it is not fully remote.
The CBSA for Bellevue, WA is part of the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA CBSA (42660); Bellevue is listed as a distinct compensation zone location but maps to that metro.
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