Senior Software Developer, Kubernetes Compute (AWS)

Location: Toronto, Canada; in-person attendance required at least 3 days per week

Base pay range: $166,000–$195,000 CAD per year, plus bonus opportunities, equity, and benefits.

Company

Robinhood builds financial products and platforms with the mission of democratizing finance.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate scalable Kubernetes container infrastructure for high-throughput financial applications.
• Help migrate core workloads to Amazon EKS while maintaining zero-downtime deployments.
• Optimize container lifecycle management, networking infrastructure, and cluster provisioning APIs for multi-region reliability.
• Integrate platform capabilities such as service mesh, authentication, and load balancing with engineering teams across Robinhood.
• Identify production performance bottlenecks and implement automated solutions to improve platform availability.

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 production platforms.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure and managed container environments such as Amazon EKS.
• Knowledge of container networking, cluster security protocols, and open-source cloud-native tools.
• Ability to plan and execute technical projects systematically and provide technical guidance to team members.

Culture & Benefits

• High-impact work focused on scaling reliable financial infrastructure.
• Performance-driven compensation with bonus programs and equity ownership.
• Supplemental health, ancillary insurance, mental health support, and a flexible lifestyle wallet for wellness, childcare, and learning expenses.
• Company holidays, paid time off, sick time, volunteer time off, and parental leave.
• Office meals, events, comfortable workspaces, and a monthly commuter stipend.