Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Networking
About The Position
Robinhood is building an elite team to tackle the world's biggest financial problems using frontier technologies. The Cloud Networking team is responsible for building scalable, secure, and reliable networking infrastructure that powers communication across all Robinhood services. They provide foundational networking capabilities that are resilient and transparent, enabling engineering teams to build and operate microservices seamlessly. This role specifically focuses on designing, building, and evolving the foundational platform for large-scale services, with an emphasis on AWS, Kubernetes (K8s) on Amazon EKS, modern networking, and a robust Istio service mesh. The position is part of the Network Service Discovery and Communication (SDC) team, which handles service discovery, traffic management, and resilient service-to-service communication. The role is based in Bellevue, with a requirement for at least 3 days of in-person attendance per week, emphasizing the company's belief in the power of in-person collaboration for innovation and community building.
Requirements
- Experience with AWS network communication fundamentals (VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, NLB/ALB, PrivateLink, NAT, DNS).
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes (K8s) and AWS EKS operations at scale (cluster lifecycle, node pools, autoscaling, admission control, CRDs).
- Strong understanding of HTTP/REST and gRPC protocol fundamentals, including performance, reliability, and backward compatibility.
- Strong understanding of Istio service mesh; Envoy experience is a strong plus.
- Exceptional traffic communication troubleshooting skills across L3–L7, including packet capture/analysis, Envoy/Istio telemetry, and debugging DNS/TLS/MTLS and routing policies.
- Strong scripting/programming skills in Python and Golang.
- Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
- Strong leadership skills to lead projects end-to-end: planning, execution, stakeholder alignment, and presentation/communication.
Nice To Haves
- Envoy experience
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and execution for platform networking, traffic management, and service-to-service communication across multi-tenant/multi-cluster EKS environments.
- Design and operate resilient service mesh topologies with Istio, including mTLS, traffic policies, ingress/egress, rate limiting, and observability, with Envoy-based extensions where appropriate.
- Define and implement platform standards for HTTP/REST and gRPC APIs, including versioning, contract governance, and performance/SLO baselines.
- Build automation, tooling, and paved roads in Python and Go (Golang) to improve developer productivity, operational safety, and release velocity.
- Create and maintain Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules, pipelines, and guardrails for secure, auditable, and scalable infrastructure changes.
- Partner with security, networking, and application teams to drive end-to-end solutions for identity, encryption, zero-downtime migrations, and incident readiness.
- Provide technical leadership: drive roadmaps, set success metrics, de-risk complex projects, communicate tradeoffs, and mentor senior engineers.
Benefits
- Supplemental health insurance
- Ancillary insurance
- Mental health support programs
- Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible employer-paid benefits spending account expenses beyond traditional benefits such as wellness, childcare, learning, and more.
- Company holidays
- Paid time off
- Sick time
- Paid volunteer time off
- Parental leave
- Catered meals
- Events
- Comfortable workspaces
- Monthly commuter stipend
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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