Senior Software Engineer, Data Lake

Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Data Lake Ingestion team builds the foundations that move data from Robinhood’s operational platforms into our data lake so partner teams can make data-driven decisions. Our mission centers on operating secure and reliable ingestion paths, spanning near-real-time CDC pipelines, large-scale snapshot systems, and streaming flows via Kafka and Flink. We sit at the center of Robinhood's data platform, directly enabling analytics, regulatory retention workflows, and secure access patterns across the company. We collaborate with partner teams like Storage, Streaming Platform, and Governance to maintain high data quality and schema validation at scale. Our team is built on a culture of technical excellence and collaborative problem-solving to address deep platform engineering challenges! As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and implement the next generation of our hybrid ingestion systems, focusing on performance, schema evolution, and validation. You will scale our flags…