Design and migrate Robinhood's container platform to Amazon EKS without downtime

Robinhood's Kubernetes Compute team is expanding its container provisioning platform and needs a Senior Software Developer to design resilient container infrastructure and drive the technical migration to Amazon EKS with zero-downtime deployments. This interview centers on Kubernetes control-plane/data-plane depth, large-scale distributed systems operations, and cloud migration execution under a high reliability bar.

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What this interview tests

Kubernetes control plane / data plane internals and container lifecycle
Zero-downtime migration to Amazon EKS
Container networking, cluster security, multi-region scalability
Platform integrations: service mesh, auth, load balancing
Diagnosing and fixing production performance bottlenecks

Common question themes

How would you migrate production Kubernetes workloads to Amazon EKS with zero downtime

Explain the difference between control plane and data plane components you've operated on

Design a multi-region container provisioning system for high availability

Tell me about a production performance bottleneck you found and automated a fix for

How have you integrated service mesh or authentication into a shared cluster platform

How do you plan and sequence a large infrastructure migration project

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