# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure at Robinhood

- Company: Robinhood
- What the company does: Trade stocks on Robinhood with commission-free investing & advanced trading tools. Access fractional shares, real-time market data, and more. Terms and fees may apply. Backed by Index, Kleiner Perkins and NEA.
- Company website: http://robinhood.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Bellevue, WA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/robinhood/jobs/8147341?t=gh_src=&gh_jid=8147341&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/robinhood-senior-staff-software-engineer-core-infrastructure/

## About the role

Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Deep, hands-on expertise with Kubernetes internals — API server, controller reconciliation, etcd watch propagation, scheduler mechanics, and admission control
- Deep working knowledge of Istio and/or Envoy at the source code level — including the xDS API as a protocol, experience debugging at the control-plane/data-plane boundary
- HTTP/2 and gRPC wire-level knowledge — connection management, flow control, stream multiplexing, and observability
- Terraform at architectural scale — module design patterns, provider internals, remote state management, and multi-region provisioning
- Production Go or Python for infrastructure tooling, strong fundamentals in writing well-structured, tested, operationally sound code
- Proven ability to drive cross-functional architectural change across large or complex engineering organizations — influencing without authority and shipping durable decisions

Tags: ENG Infrastructure

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