Senior Software Engineer, Service Discovery & Communication

About the team:

The preferred location for this position is in or around Robinhood's offices in Seattle, WA, Menlo Park, CA, or New York City with in-office work capabilities, as may be required by management, but remote work in limited geographies within the U.S. may be considered. Check with your recruiter for more information.

Robinhood’s products are powered by a multitude of powerful microservices working in unison. In order for these microservices to work, they need to be able to locate and communicate with each other. We build and deploy the fundamental systems that enable this real-time, inter-service communication all while being highly-scaleable, robust and reliable!

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and lead from a very technical lens. This engineer will have true ownership, continuing to build the innovation to continue to delight our users.

What you’ll do day-to-day:

• Design large scale systems within a team, making the right tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability.
• Proactively identify and drive optimizations and improvements to the infrastructure and systems.
• Mentor and train junior engineers in the team.
• Contribute to open source projects.

About you:

• Proven understanding of Networking and Microservice Architecture and a familiarity with writing highly concurrent systems with load balancing techniques.
• Have a strong technical grasp and have excellent judgment on task prioritizations.
• You are able to tackle sophisticated engineering problems that deliver results which help the team to achieve its objectives.
• You have a history of creating and applying new processes and tooling to increase engineering efficiency.
• Passion in mentoring junior engineers and improving the engineering craftsmanship!

Bonus points:

• Intimate familiarity of Python/Django or Go and writing low latency, large scale distributed systems.
• Experience working on Kubernetes, AWS, and service discovery or service mesh type systems.

Technologies we use:

• Python/Django, Go as the main languages and frameworks of choice. Experience with C++ is a bonus as we construct our global edge.
• Unbound and CoreDNS as our DNS
• Envoy for load balancing and global routing
• gRPC for inter-service communication

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The expected salary range for this role is based on the location where the work will be performed and is aligned to one of 3 compensation zones. This role is also eligible to participate in a Robinhood bonus plan and Robinhood’s equity plan.

US Zone 1: $187000 - $220000
US Zone 2: $165000 - $194000
US Zone 3: $146000 - $172000