Senior Platform Engineer: AI-Driven CI/CD & Kubernetes

Redfin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 166,900 - 203,900; Full time

Job summary

Redfin is seeking a Senior CI/CD Platform Engineer to design, build, and evolve our modern CI/CD platform powered by GitHub Actions, Argo CD, and Kubernetes in our Seattle-area teams.

You will own end-to-end developer experience—from PR workflows to automated deployments—while embedding AI-powered tooling into DevOps workflows, leading incident response, and defining GitHub governance to improve velocity and reliability across the organization.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional software development experience.
• Experience designing highly available, reliable, and scalable systems.
• Strong experience building CI/CD systems using GitHub Actions or equivalent technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Argo CD and GitOps-based deployment models.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes and cloud-native architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions.
• Manage GitOps-based deployments using Argo CD into Kubernetes environments.
• Improve system reliability, scalability, and deployment safety across environments.
• Embed AI-powered tooling into DevOps workflows (CI/CD optimization, PR summarization, automated review assistance, policy validation, incident insights). Lead incident response and root cause analysis for CI/CD and deployment-related outages.
• Define and enforce GitHub governance best practices (branch protection, reusable workflows, permissions, policy automation).
• Identify bottlenecks in developer workflows and proactively drive improvements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, SRE, and product teams to ensure platform solutions meet real customer needs.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices around DevOps, GitOps, and cloud-native systems.

Skills

CI/CD workflows

GitOps

AI tooling in DevOps

Team collaboration

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science

Tools

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

GitHub CoPilot / AI tooling

Job description

Redfin is seeking a Senior CI/CD Platform Engineer to design, build, and evolve our modern CI/CD platform powered by GitHub Actions, Argo CD, and Kubernetes in our Seattle-area teams.

You will own end-to-end developer experience—from PR workflows to automated deployments—while embedding AI-powered tooling into DevOps workflows, leading incident response, and defining GitHub governance to improve velocity and reliability across the organization.