Cloud Network Engineer - Technical Lead

Redfin is hiring a Cloud Network Engineer - Technical Lead to set the technical direction for its CDN, edge, and AWS cloud network architecture. The role leads cross-team initiatives, provides expertise and incident support, mentors engineers, establishes Infrastructure as Code quality standards, and evaluates and adopts services and tools.

Responsibilities:

• Own strategy and architecture for Redfin’s CDN, edge, and cloud network, turning a high-level vision into goals and designs that several engineering teams build on, and making choices that are right for the company as a whole
• Take on open-ended problems with no obvious solution, define the goals, and drive them to measurable results with Platform, SEO, Infosec, and product teams, building consensus on complicated decisions along the way
• Act as an authority on CDN and cloud networking, teaching and unblocking engineers across the organization through design reviews, clear written proposals, and incident support
• Mentor the team’s next senior engineers, set the quality bar for Infrastructure as Code, and introduce the tooling and processes that reduce toil and technical debt. Interview senior candidates and help drive hiring decisions
• Stay current on industry trends, evaluate new AWS services and vendors and lead their adoption, and define the metrics (availability, latency, cost, security posture) that show the impact of the work

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience, including 5+ in AWS, with deep expertise in CloudFront, API Gateway, VPC, Transit Gateway, WAF, Shield, Route 53
• 4+ years establishing, managing, and scaling a multi-account cloud environment
• A track record of leading technical projects across several engineering teams, from an ambiguous starting point to production, and of mentoring engineers to the senior level
• Expert-level Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Spacelift, Terraform Cloud, Atlantis, or CloudFormation), including designing modules and stacks other teams use, plus proficiency in Python, JavaScript/Node, or similar
• Deep experience with observability tooling such as Datadog and CloudWatch, used to define SLOs and drive decisions
• VPC Lattice, Control Tower, Service Catalog, Account Factory, IAM Identity Center, AWS Organizations, Cognito and edge security experience on high-traffic consumer sites