Staff Software Engineer, Robinhood
Compute
CA$200-235k
+ Bonus opportunities + Equity
Commission-free stock trading & investing app
Be an early applicant
Commission-free stock trading & investing app
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$200-235k
+ Bonus opportunities + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To democratize finance for all.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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 Compute 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 Compute 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
- The Compute team is the key contributor for enabling a multi-region future 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
- 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
Our take
For years, traditional brokers ruled the share trading realm, charging hefty fees that locked out everyday investors. Robinhood emerged as a disruptor, offering commission-free trading and opening the door to a new generation. Since then, expectations have continued to evolve, with investors looking not just to lower costs, but for simpler tools, clearer information, and guidance that makes the market easier to understand.
Robinhood was built to meet those changing expectations, designed from the start as a mobile-first platform that makes investor more accessible and less intimidating for people at every stage of their financial journey. Through its app, users can trade stocks and other financial instruments while benefiting from a clean interface and built-in educational support, helping them move from curiosity to confidence without unnecessary complexity.
Recently, Robinhood has strenghtned its impact too, particularly in the UK. With the launch of AI-powered Digests within its Robinhood Cortex assistant that helps users understand what's driving stock movements in plain English, while upcoming options trading and expanded educational resources add flexibility and depth. Together, these steps position Robinhood as a platform evolving alongside its users, blending technology and education to stay ahead in an ever-changing investment landscape.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Feb 2021
$2.4bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jan 2021
$1bn
LATE VC
Total funding: $5.6bn
Company HQ
Downtown Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Vlad Tenev
(Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman)Studied Mathematics at Stanford University, where they met Baiju. Dropped out of a PhD to start Robinhood. Alongside Robinhood, Vlad is also the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Harmonic.
Baiju B.
(Co-Founder)Studied Mathematics and Physics at Stanford University, where they met their Vlad and co-founded Robinhood in 2012. Baiju is also the Founder and CEO of Aetherflux.
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