Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Networking
$196,000–$230,000 year
On-siteBellevue, Washington, United States
Job Summary
Lead technical strategy for platform networking, traffic management, and service-to-service communication across multi-tenant EKS environments. Design and operate resilient service mesh topologies with Istio, including mTLS, traffic policies, ingress/egress, rate limiting, and observability. Define standards for HTTP/REST and gRPC APIs, establishing versioning, contract governance, and performance baselines. Build automation tooling in Python and Go to improve developer productivity and release velocity. Create Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code modules and pipelines for secure, auditable infrastructure changes. Partner with security and application teams to drive solutions for identity, encryption, and incident readiness. Provide technical leadership by driving roadmaps, setting success metrics, de-risking complex projects, and mentoring senior engineers. This role focuses on designing scalable, secure networking infrastructure that powers communication across all Robinhood services.
Required Qualifications
- Experience with AWS network communication fundamentals (VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, NLB/ALB, PrivateLink, NAT, DNS)
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes (K8s) and AWS EKS operations at scale (cluster lifecycle, node pools, autoscaling, admission control, CRDs)
- Strong understanding of HTTP/REST and gRPC protocol fundamentals, including performance, reliability, and backward compatibility
- Strong understanding of Istio service mesh
- Exceptional traffic communication troubleshooting skills across L3–L7, including packet capture/analysis, Envoy/Istio telemetry, and debugging DNS/TLS/MTLS and routing policies
- Strong scripting/programming skills in Python and Golang
- Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices
- Strong leadership skills to lead projects end-to-end: planning, execution, stakeholder alignment, and presentation/communication
- This role is based in our Bellevue office(s), with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week
Desired Qualifications
- Envoy experience is a strong plus
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