Senior Cloud Networking Platform Engineer

Robinhood; Washington; On-site; USD 196,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Supplemental health insurance

Ancillary insurance

Mental health support programs

Lifestyle wallet benefits

Paid time off / parental leave

Catered meals in office

Monthly commuter stipend

Equity ownership

Job summary

Robinhood is building an elite cloud networking platform to power our services. We seek bold thinkers who translate complex problems into scalable solutions and who thrive in a fast-moving, high-expectation culture.

This Staff Software Platform Engineer role focuses on AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Istio service mesh, and Terraform IaC to deliver secure, reliable systems. Based in Bellevue with in-person attendance at least 3 days a week.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS networking fundamentals (VPCs, subnets, routing, DNS).
• Strong Kubernetes and AWS EKS operations at scale.
• Solid understanding of HTTP/REST and gRPC.
• Experience with Istio service mesh; Envoy experience is a strong plus.
• Exceptional traffic troubleshooting across L3–L7, including TLS/MTLS.
• Strong scripting in Python and Golang; Terraform and IaC practices.
• Strong leadership to lead projects end-to-end.

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.
• Define and implement platform standards for HTTP/REST and gRPC APIs, including versioning and performance baselines.
• Build automation, tooling, and paved roads in Python and Go to improve developer productivity.
• Create and maintain Terraform-based IaC modules, pipelines, and guardrails for secure infrastructure changes.
• Partner with security, networking, and application teams for identity, encryption, migrations, and incident readiness.
• Provide technical leadership: roadmaps, metrics, de-risk projects, and mentor senior engineers.

Skills

AWS networking

Kubernetes

HTTP/REST

gRPC

Istio

Envoy

Python

Go

Golang

Terraform

IaC

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Envoy

Istio

Kubernetes

AWS EKS

Job description

Robinhood is building an elite cloud networking platform to power our services. We seek bold thinkers who translate complex problems into scalable solutions and who thrive in a fast-moving, high-expectation culture.

This Staff Software Platform Engineer role focuses on AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Istio service mesh, and Terraform IaC to deliver secure, reliable systems. Based in Bellevue with in-person attendance at least 3 days a week.