Storage Tech Lead – Robinhood Internship


Website Robinhood

Position Summary:

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity! You will own the technical roadmap for scaling Robinhood’s RDBMS, Cache, and Key-Value Storage Platforms to support 100 million users and beyond. We are looking for someone who can build world-class storage solutions to process the high-volume transactional workloads which carry the financial goals of our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide executive communications support and counsel to leaders
  • Coach and prepare speakers for internal and external programs
  • Write and edit announcements and leadership messages, as well as priority updates for the organization
  • Develop clear narratives and message maps for Security & Privacy leaders
  • Coordinate and manage organizational programs and events, including the Security & Privacy All Hands
  • Drive communication channels, content strategy, and calendaring for Security & Privacy, both internal to the function and for security topics reaching all Robinhood employees
  • Support internal communications and external PR during complex, ambiguous, and dynamic situations

Required Education & Experience:

  • Senior Staff or Principal-level Distributed Systems Engineering experience
  • Designed and operated infrastructure platforms which support 10M+ users.
  • A world-class understanding of storage architecture. You are going to teach us things we never knew were possible.
  • Designed and operated storage platforms which support 10M+ users.
  • Delivered strict performance and stability SLAs on transaction heavy workloads.
  • Have the ability to dive deep into database
  • Open source contributions to PostgreSQL or MySQL
  • Prior experience scaling storage platforms at high growth startups
  • Experience designing and managing other distributed systems at scale (pub-sub, workflow, orchestration)