Staff Software Developer, Cloud Networking

Join a leading fintech company that’s democratizing finance for all.

Robinhood Markets was founded on a simple idea: that our financial markets should be accessible to all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood and its subsidiaries and affiliates are lowering barriers and providing greater access to financial information. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in.

With growth as the top priority...

The business is seeking curious, growth-minded thinkers to help shape our vision, structures and systems; playing a key-role as we launch into our ambitious future. If you’re invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world — we’d love to have you apply.

About the team:

Robinhood’s products are powered by a multitude of microservices working together. In order for these microservices to work together, they need to be able to locate and connect with each other. The service discovery and cloud networking group builds and deploys the fundamental systems that enable this real-time, low-latency, inter-service communication in a highly-scalable, robust, and reliable manner. We use Kubernetes for our container orchestration, Terraform as our infrastructure as code framework, Istio for our service mesh, Envoy as our edge and service proxy, and Unbound and CoreDNS as our DNS.

What you’ll do day-to-day:

• Maintain tier-0 availability and performance standards for interservice communication, critical to Robinhood’s operational success.
• Drive proactive improvements in our infrastructure, anticipating growth and reliability needs ahead of demand.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers in the team.
• Contribute to open source projects.

About you:

• You’ve led teams operating Kubernetes-based platforms at scale on AWS cloud infrastructure deployments.
• You have driven the adoption of improved internal standards for networking, service communication and/or service discovery across a large organization.
• You understand the security implications of service-to-service communication and have experience working with security teams on authentication, encryption, and policy enforcement.
• You are an authority in cloud networking, microservice architecture, service meshes, Kubernetes and AWS cloud infrastructure.
• You have experience designing and building low-latency, highly concurrent systems, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and reliability under demanding workloads..
• You are a tech lead with a proven track record driving high impact projects that involved organization-wide collaboration within the company.
• You can effectively prioritize tasks for your team based on feedback from various collaborators and competing business and technical requirements.
• You have a history of crafting and applying new processes and tooling to increase engineering efficiency.
• You have a passion for mentoring junior engineers and improving the engineering craftsmanship.

Base pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. The expected salary range for this role is based on the location where the work will be performed. This role is also eligible to participate in a Robinhood bonus plan and Robinhood’s equity plan.

Click here to learn more about available Benefits, which vary by region and Robinhood entity.

We’re looking for more growth-minded and collaborative people to be a part of our journey in democratizing finance for all. If you’re ready to give 100% in helping us achieve our mission—we’d love to have you apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Robinhood, we're looking for people invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

Robinhood embraces a diversity of backgrounds and experiences and provides equal opportunity for all applicants and employees. We are dedicated to building a company that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work (and work environment) will be for everyone. Additionally, Robinhood provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants' privacy rights. Please review the specific Robinhood Privacy Policy applicable to the country where you are applying.