robinhood

Senior Software Developer, Kubernetes Compute

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At a Glance

Location
Toronto, Canada
Posted
2026-05-26T15:53:25-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

AWSKubernetes

Domain Knowledge

  • Cloud

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance

luding supplemental health insurance, ancillary insurance, and mental health

Requirements

Strong proficiency with Kubernetes control plane and data plane components, including container lifecycle management.

Experience deploying, debugging, and managing large-scale distributed systems or containerized platforms in a production environment.

Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS services and managed container environments like Amazon EKS.

Knowledge of container networking concepts, cluster security protocols, and open-source cloud-native tools.

Compensation & Benefits

Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career

Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, and equity ownership

Top tier benefits to fuel your work, including supplemental health insurance, ancillary insurance, and mental health support programs

Lifestyle wallet a highly flexible employer-paid benefits spending account expenses beyond traditional benefits such as wellness, childcare, learning, and more.

Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, paid volunteer time off, parental leave, and more!

Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate scalable container infrastructure using Kubernetes to support high-throughput financial applications.

Contribute to the technical execution of migrating core workloads to Amazon EKS while ensuring zero-downtime deployments.

Optimize container lifecycle management, networking infrastructure, and cluster provisioning APIs for multi-region reliability.

Collaborate with engineering teams across Robinhood to integrate core platform capabilities like service mesh, authentication, and load balancing.

Identify performance bottlenecks in production environments and implement automated solutions to enhance platform availability.

Team

We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world's biggest financial problems. We're looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn't a place for complacency, it's where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We're a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.

The Software Platform team accelerates developer velocity and increases system reliability by building the foundational platforms and tools that power Robinhood engineering. Within this group, the

Kubernetes Compute team

focuses on building and operating a highly available, scalable Kubernetes-powered container platform. We ensure that our infrastructure seamlessly supports reliable application deployments, integrates core platform capabilities, and enables multi-region scalability. We are expanding our core container systems to support our next phase of technical growth!

As a

Senior Software Develope