Software Developer, Cloud Networking

About the team + role

Robinhood’s products are powered by a multitude of powerful microservices working in unison. In order for these microservices to work, they need to be able to locate and communicate with each other. As the Cloud Networking team, we build and deploy the fundamental systems that enable this real-time, inter-service communication all while being highly-scaleable, robust and reliable!

The team builds with Go and Python as the main language and frameworks of choice with C++ being a bonus. We also use Envoy for load balancing and global routing, Unbound and CoreDNS as our DNS, and gRPC for inter-service communication. We also heavily utilize Kubernetes, AWS, service discovery and service mesh type systems.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to help from a technical lens. This engineer will have ownership, continuing to innovate to delight our users. You will act as a problem solver, coder and work with other leaders in the team.

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

• Contribute to and execute on the technical strategy, standards, and roadmap.
• Be a hands-on contributor for critical projects on the roadmap.
• Design large scale, distributed 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.
• Contribute to open source projects.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to design, build, and maintain the systems that power our cloud network infrastructure

What you bring

• Understanding of Networking and Microservice Architecture and a familiarity with writing highly concurrent systems with load balancing techniques.
• Experience in traffic management platforms and service mesh technologies like envoy, istio, linkerd, cilium, etc.
• Have a strong technical grasp, excellent judgment on task prioritizations and expertise with a focus on reliability, scalability, and correctness.
• You are able to tackle sophisticated engineering problems that deliver results which help the team to achieve its objectives.
• You have a history of creating and applying new processes and tooling to increase engineering efficiency.

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