Senior Database & Storage Reliability Architect

Rocket Companies; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Redfin is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Reliability Engineer to provide technical leadership for production database and storage systems. You will help lead the strategy and collaborate across teams to expand database technologies for engineers.

You will architect and implement cloud database solutions with emphasis on reliability, security, and scalability, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call rotations across US-based locations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience managing systems in AWS or a similar cloud environment.
• 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.
• You have a 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.
• You are an experienced mentor of other engineers with the ability to guide a team of engineers to identify and implement solutions to difficult problems.
• You’re 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.
• You have excellent communication skills that allow you to connect and influence your immediate team up through senior leadership
• You understand and can implement core reliability principles, including monitoring, alerting, and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the database and storage strategy at Redfin, including architecture, management, and access patterns.
• Lead complex technical discussions with audiences including software and systems engineers and business leaders.
• Architect & lead implementation of cloud database and storage systems with a focus on reliability, observability, scalability, and security.
• 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.
• Use and evangelize approved AI code generation tools to document, architect, and create code.
• Plan and participate in high availability and disaster recovery planning/drills.
• Lead incident resolution, including performing root causes analyses.
• Use your systems knowledge to promote scaling and performance for services across Redfin and some partner companies.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for about one week per month.

Skills

AWS

PostgreSQL

Linux scripting (Python)

Cloud architecture

Mentor engineers

AI code generation tools

Incident management

Communication skills

OpenSearch/DynamoDB

Tools

AWS Aurora/RDS

AWS S3

Elasticache

OpenSearch

DynamoDB

Job description

Redfin is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Reliability Engineer to provide technical leadership for production database and storage systems. You will help lead the strategy and collaborate across teams to expand database technologies for engineers.

You will architect and implement cloud database solutions with emphasis on reliability, security, and scalability, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call rotations across US-based locations.