Infrastructure Reliability Engineer - Database & Storage

Preferred location:
Hybrid from Seattle, San Francisco, or Detroit offices. Fully remote is available for highly qualified U.S.

-based candidates outside of these locations.

The Staff Infrastructure Reliability Engineer is responsible for the technical leadership of Redfin’s production database and storage systems. They work with the database team manager and other database and storage engineers to develop and execute a strategy that supports system reliability and maintainability and help lead the team’s strategy as the database and storage technologies expand.

This role requires depth in design, collaboration with internal teams, a proactive approach to problem solving, and the ability to share complex ideas with senior leadership and secure their support.

• You will help lead the database and storage strategy at Redfin, including architecture, management, and access patterns.
• You will lead complex technical discussions with a variety of audiences, including software and systems engineers and business leaders.
• You will architect and lead implementation of cloud database and storage systems with a focus on reliability, observability, scalability, and security.
• You will support large‑scale / high‑volume databases both as self‑managed and specialized AWS managed offerings, including management activities such as upgrade, backup, recovery, and migration.
• You will use and evangelize approved AI code generation tools to document, architect, and create code.
• You will plan and participate in high‑availability and disaster‑recovery planning/drills.
• You will lead incident resolution, including performing root‑cause analyses.
• You will use your systems knowledge to promote scaling and performance for services across Redfin and some partner companies.
• You will participate in an on‑call rotation for about one week per month.

• 7+ years of experience managing systems in AWS or a similar cloud environment, including compute and storage with an emphasis on solution development and execution.
• 5+ years of experience with at least one, but preferably more, of:
  Postgre
  
  SQL or similar RDBMS; AWS Aurora/RDS; AWS S3;
  Elasticache;
  Open search;
  Dynamo
  
  DB.
• Proven history in architecting, building, scaling, and supporting cloud infrastructure technologies, specializing in database and storage services, and can communicate the direct business impact.
• Extensive experience with Linux administration and Linux scripting, including Python script development.
• Experienced mentor of engineers with the ability to guide a team to identify and implement solutions to difficult problems.
• Committed to best practices that set your team up for long‑term success, including infrastructure as code, configuration management tooling, and security practices.
• Deep knowledge and professional use of at least one AI code generation tool, such as Anthropic Claude Code, Git Hub Copilot, Cursor, or similar.
• Excellent communication skills that allow you to connect and influence your immediate team up through senior leadership.
• Understanding and ability to implement core reliability principles, including monitoring, alerting, and incident management.

Eligible team members receive health benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, a 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off, and other employment‑related benefits. Detailed benefits information is available by request.

Redfin is revolutionizing the $75 billion real estate industry by using data, software, and innovative design to put customers first at every step of the home‑buying and selling process. We are proud to have award‑winning websites and mobile apps that solve complex business problems in a highly visible, customer‑centric way.

This job description is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position and may be modified at the discretion of the company at any time. Decisions related to employment are not based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state and federal law.

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