About the role
- The Software Platform team accelerates developer velocity and increases system reliability by building the foundational platforms and tools that power Robinhood engineering
- Within this group, the Kubernetes Compute team focuses on building and operating a highly available, scalable Kubernetes-powered container platform
- We ensure that our infrastructure seamlessly supports reliable application deployments, integrates core platform capabilities, and enables multi-region scalability. We are expanding our core container systems to support our next phase of technical growth!
- As a Software Developer, you will focus on building, maintaining, and scaling our container provisioning platforms
- Working alongside senior engineers, you will write code to improve our infrastructure capabilities and actively participate in our technical transition to Amazon EKS
- In this role, you will collaborate with teams across the organization to ensure robust platform integrations for everyday application needs like security and networking. Your efforts will directly improve system visibility, automation, and reliability across the platform
- Build and maintain scalable container infrastructure using Kubernetes to support high-throughput financial applications
- Support the technical implementation and testing needed to transition workloads safely to Amazon EKS
- Help optimize container lifecycle management and monitor cluster provisioning APIs for multi-region stability
- Collaborate with engineering teams across Robinhood to integrate platform capabilities like service mesh, authentication, and load balancing
- Assist in identifying performance bottlenecks in production and write automation to enhance platform availability- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure environments, preferably AWS ecosystems
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes core concepts, control plane components, and container environments
- Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining distributed systems or containerized infrastructure in a production setting
- Basic knowledge of container networking, infrastructure security protocols, or open-source cloud-native tools
- Strong collaborative communication skills and a desire to solve technical challenges systematically