Staff Software Developer, Container Orchestration

About the team + role

As Robinhood’s infrastructure engineering, we are on a mission to provide Robinhood product teams a world-class platform that enables rapid product development by making infrastructure invisible and highly available.

The mission of Software Platform, of which Container Orchestration is a part, is to accelerate developer velocity and increase system reliability by building the foundational software platforms and tools that power the rest of Robinhood engineering.

The Container Orchestration team at Robinhood is solely responsible for building a highly available, horizontally scalable, secure, best in the industry (for Robinhood scale) offering of Kubernetes-powered container provisioning APIs that seamlessly integrate with the rest of infrastructure and platform offerings from other teams. This team’s primary focus is to proactively ensure scalability, reliability and availability of our Kubernetes distribution. This includes the deployment topology and configuration of the OSS components we build upon and all the extensions we build.

Container Orchestration is responsible for defining and implementing a cell based, multi-region architecture for Robinhood’s platform and infrastructure services. This helps the platform services scale without adding additional complexity to our application developers. APIs and systems managed by this team are also responsible for transparent platform integrations (sidecars, daemonsets) that offer core capabilities (Auth, Security, DNS, Load Balancing, Storage) offered to the tenants (applications) making this an area of huge importance to the overall safety and reliability of Robinhood and its value to be a safety-first company.

The role is located in the office location(s) listed on this job description which will align with our in-office working environment. Please connect with your recruiter for more information regarding our in-office philosophy and expectations.

What you’ll do day-to-day

• Design large scale systems within the team, making the right tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability.
• Proactively identify and drive optimizations and improvements to the infrastructure and systems.
• Set up and drive technical directions of the project while mentor and up-level junior engineers in the team.
• Lead organization-wide collaboration for the team.
• Contribute to open source projects.

What you bring

• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes control plane and data plane components.
• Thorough understanding of the Kubernetes Platform and container lifecycle management.
• Experience with Kubernetes multi-cluster challenges and Kubernetes networking (e.g. CNI deployment and troubleshooting).
• Experience managing and debugging large scale infrastructure services in production.
• Proven seasoned individual contributor with experience planning and leading end to end large projects with long-term impact on one or more systems or a team.
• Have a passion for mentoring junior engineers and improving engineering craftsmanship.

Bonus points

• Open source contributions to Kubernetes and other related projects.
• Prior experience scaling the Kubernetes platform at high-growth startups.
• Experience designing and managing other distributed systems at scale.