Build and scale Robinhood's Kubernetes container platform through its EKS migration

Robinhood is hiring a Software Developer for its Kubernetes Compute team to build, maintain, and scale the container provisioning platform underpinning Robinhood engineering, with a focus on the active migration to Amazon EKS. The role is hands-on infrastructure work alongside senior engineers, based in Toronto with in-office expectations.

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What this interview tests

Kubernetes core concepts and control plane components
Container lifecycle management and multi-region cluster provisioning
AWS/EKS migration planning and execution
Production debugging of distributed/containerized systems
Platform integrations: service mesh, authentication, load balancing
Infrastructure automation for availability and reliability

Common question themes

Explain Kubernetes control plane components and how they interact

How would you safely migrate a production workload to Amazon EKS?

Describe a production performance bottleneck you diagnosed in a containerized system and how you fixed it

Designing for multi-region cluster stability

Integrating service mesh, auth, or load balancing into a shared platform

Your experience with container networking or infra security basics

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