Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Platform
Robinhood · Bellevue, WA
$196,000–$230,000
Jul 27, 2026
Bellevue, WA
Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior Software Engineer role on Robinhood's Streaming Platform team, responsible for designing, building, and operating distributed data streaming infrastructure that handles billions of events per day. The work centers on Kafka, Flink, and Debezium-based pipelines supporting product, data, and ML teams across the company. The role also involves mentoring engineers and shaping long-term architectural strategy for the platform. Based in Bellevue, WA with a hybrid in-office expectation of at least 3 days per week.
Senior level · 5+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
Pay in the description: $196,000–$230,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 350 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 150–530
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What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Compensation shown is for Zone 1 (Menlo Park CA / New York NY / Bellevue WA / Washington DC). Zone 2 range is $172,000–$202,000 and Zone 3 is $153,000–$179,000; the role is based in Bellevue WA, which falls in Zone 1.
Kafka, Flink, and Debezium are listed under the 'What you bring' requirements section with the phrasing 'A background in tools like…'; the 'like' qualifier signals these specific tools are interchangeable with close equivalents, but the underlying capability (distributed streaming/CDC tooling) is a hard gate. They are marked required accordingly.
Kubernetes appears only in a linked blog post title ('Robinhood's Kafka Journey from EC2 to Kubernetes') embedded in the narrative context section — it is not stated as a requirement or preferred skill in the qualifications, so it is marked preferred.
Distributed systems experience and event-driven/stream processing architecture are stated as explicit requirements in the 'What you bring' section; they are included as named capability gates even though they are not single-product tool names.
The role is hybrid (3 days/week in-office in Bellevue, WA), not fully remote.
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