Redfin · 1 month ago
Cloud Database Engineer II
WA - Seattle
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$114K/yr - $154K/yr
3+ years expRedfin is revolutionizing the real estate industry using data, software, and innovative design. The Cloud Database Engineer II will play a crucial role in supporting and optimizing Redfin's cloud database infrastructure, ensuring system performance and collaboration with engineering teams.
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Responsibilities
You will support database architecture projects with a focus on reliability, throughput, scalability, and security
You will build observability to proactively detect and prevent performance issues
You will perform DBA duties in non-production and production environments, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, and migration
You will use infrastructure as code and configuration management tools to ensure consistency
You will use approved AI code generation tools to document, architect, and create code
You will maintain configuration of PostgreSQL instances including replication setup, parameter settings, and identification of appropriate instance types/sizes
You will use approved AI code generation tools to document, architect, and create code
You will participate in high availability and disaster recovery planning/drills
You will use your systems knowledge to help scaling and performance for every service at Redfin
You will participate in an on-call rotation about one week per month
Qualification
Required
3+ years experience in cloud / AWS environments
3+ years managing a cloud database instances (i.e. RDS, Aurora, or on EC2)
3+ years of PostgreSQL (or similar) database engineering and administration
Shell scripting and Python script development
Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure as code tools
Experience in an Agile environment and production infrastructure on call
Experience using AI code generation tools tools such as GitHub CoPilot, Anthropic Claude Code, Cursor, or similar
Experience with Linux administration and Linux scripting
Preferred
AWS Certified Database - Specialty
Software or Systems Development experience
Expertise in RDS (Postgres) databases and Non-Relational databases such as (Redis, Snowflake)
Benefits
Flexible vacation that supports the importance of time away from work for rest and relaxation
12 paid holidays
Paid parental leave
Sick leave (accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked)
Medical, dental, and vision insurance benefits
Flexible spending account
Health savings account
Life and disability insurance
Fertility benefits
Employee Assistance Programs
401(k) employer match
Company
Redfin
Redfin is a technology-driven residential real estate brokerage with the country’s most-visited real estate brokerage website. It is a sub-organization of Rocket Companies.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$569.62MKey Investors
ApolloDurable Capital PartnersTiger Global Management
2025-03-10Acquired
2023-10-24Post Ipo Debt· $250M
2020-03-30Post Ipo Equity· $110M
Leadership Team
Glenn Kelman
President & CEO
Chris Nielsen
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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