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Redfin · 1 month ago

Cloud Database Engineer II - Remote Eligible

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

$114K/yr - $154K/yr

3+ years exp

Redfin is revolutionizing the real estate industry using data, software, and innovative design. They are seeking a Cloud Database Engineer II who will be responsible for supporting databases across their cloud environment, ensuring system performance, and collaborating with engineering teams to optimize database operations.

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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

PostgreSQLAWSCloud Database ManagementTerraformPythonLinux AdministrationShell ScriptingAI Code GenerationAgile EnvironmentSoftware Development

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 such as GitHub CoPilot, Anthropic Claude Code, Cursor, or similar

Experience with Linux administration and Linux scripting

You have expertise and development skills in building, scaling, and supporting database technologies (Postgres, Aurora RDS, event streaming, caching)

You have worked with cloud databases including provisioning, automation, scaling/performance, and replication

You understand the what/why/how of infrastructure protocols and architecture

You have experience with database performance tuning, troubleshooting databases, and performance issues

You love to build tooling for common DBA processes and to automate!