Senior Platform Engineer, Core Infra & Global Compute

Robinhood; Bellevue, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Robinhood in Menlo Park, CA is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to guide core infrastructure that underpins 24/7 trading, crypto, and global expansion. You will own architectural evolution across service mesh, compute platform, and provisioning, shaping velocity and reliability while enabling region scaling.

This is a platform-led role focused on foundational design rather than routine operations. The role emphasizes in-person collaboration, with a strong focus on building invisible,

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating scalable infrastructure.
• Strong background in distributed systems and platform engineering.
• Proven ability to define and drive architecture across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Own service mesh architecture end-to-end for multi-region operation.
• Drive Kubernetes compute platform evolution and cluster lifecycle strategy.
• Redesign Terraform provisioning into a scalable, self-service platform.
• Diagnose issues in Kubernetes API machinery, etcd, Envoy xDS, and Terraform provider layers.
• Define technical direction across teams with architecture proposals.

Skills

Service mesh

Kubernetes

Terraform

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

Tools

Istio

Envoy

Job description

Robinhood in Menlo Park, CA is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to guide core infrastructure that underpins 24/7 trading, crypto, and global expansion. You will own architectural evolution across service mesh, compute platform, and provisioning, shaping velocity and reliability while enabling region scaling.

This is a platform-led role focused on foundational design rather than routine operations. The role emphasizes in-person collaboration, with a strong focus on building invisible,