
Cloud Database Engineer II – PostgreSQL, AWS
Redfin
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: California • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $113,900 - $154,100 per year
About the role
- Support database architecture projects with reliability, throughput, scalability, and security focus
- Build observability to proactively detect and prevent performance issues
- Perform DBA duties in non-production and production environments, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, and migration
- Use infrastructure as code and configuration management tools to ensure consistency
- Use approved AI code generation tools to document, architect, and create code
- Maintain configuration of PostgreSQL instances including replication setup and parameter settings
- Participate in high availability and disaster recovery planning/drills
- Participate in the on-call rotation about one week per month
Requirements
- 3+ years experience in cloud / AWS environments
- 3+ years managing 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
Benefits
- annual bonus
- incentives
- medical benefits
- dental benefits
- vision benefits
- 401K retirement plan
- paid time off
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Hard Skills & Tools
PostgreSQLcloud database managementShell scriptingPython scriptingTerraformCloudFormationinfrastructure as codedatabase architecturehigh availabilitydisaster recovery
Soft Skills
problem-solvingproactive detectionteam collaborationcommunicationorganizational skills