Senior Software Developer, Platform Engineering

Redfin • Seattle, WA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This position is a hybrid role requiring employees to work from our headquarters location in Seattle, WA every Tuesday and Wednesday, and remote all other days. Redfin is revolutionizing the $75 billion real estate industry. We use data, beautiful software, and innovative design to put customers first at every step in the home-buying and selling process. Get ready to dive headfirst into our award-winning website and mobile apps, solving complex business problems in a highly visible, customer-centric way. If you value doing impactful work in a collaborative environment, join our team! Are you excited to shape the future of how software is built and delivered? Do you champion the end-to-end developer experience? Most importantly, do you care deeply about the impact of your work—on your teammates, on our customers, and on the stability and scalability of the systems we build together? Join the CICD platforms team to help design, build, and evolve our modern CI/CD platform powered by GitHub Actions, Argo, and Kubernetes. This role is critical to enabling fast, reliable, and scalable software delivery across the organization. You will own and improve the end-to-end developer experience—from pull request workflows and GitHub governance to automated deployments in Kubernetes—while embedding AI-powered tooling into DevOps workflows to increase velocity, quality, and reliability. This role requires strong communication skills, excellent problem-solving ability, and a proactive mindset. We’re looking for someone who doesn’t wait for instructions when issues arise—but instead identifies root causes, proposes solutions, and drives improvements forward. You should be a team player who cares deeply about team success, customer impact, and system stability.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional software development experience
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Java, Python, Go, Node.js, etc).
• BA/BS in computer science, or equivalent work 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.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm, etc.).
• Experience improving developer workflows and internal platform tooling.
• You have experience using AI code generation tools tools such as GitHub CoPilot, Anthropic Claude Code, Cursor, or similar.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills—able to clearly articulate technical trade-offs and align stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving ability with a bias toward action.
• Proactive and self-driven—identifies issues and drives solutions without waiting for direction.
• Customer-focused—cares deeply about the product experience and developer productivity.
• Obsessed with stability, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Team-oriented—prioritizes collective success over individual recognition.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and driving clarity.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to AI/CD tooling integration in engineering workflows is a strong plus.

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.

Benefits

• The position may also be eligible for an annual bonus, incentives, and other employment-related benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K retirement plan, and paid time off.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level