Staff Infrastructure Reliability Engineer - Database & Storage

Redfin is revolutionizing the real estate industry by using data and innovative design to enhance the home-buying process. The Staff Infrastructure Reliability Engineer will provide technical leadership for Redfin’s production database and storage systems, developing strategies for system reliability and collaborating with teams to solve large-scale problems.

Responsibilities:

• 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 & 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 causes 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

Requirements:

• 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 the following: PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS; AWS Aurora/RDS; AWS S3; Elasticache; Opensearch; DynamoDB
• Proven history in architecting, building, scaling, and supporting cloud infrastructure technologies, specializing in database and storage services and can communicate the direct business impact of this work
• Extensive experience with Linux administration and Linux scripting, including Python script development
• Experienced mentor of other engineers with the ability to guide a team of engineers 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, GitHub CoPilot, Cursor, or similar to implement key efficiencies for cloud infrastructure
• Excellent communication skills that allow you to connect and influence your immediate team up through senior leadership
• Understand and can implement core reliability principles, including monitoring, alerting, and incident management