What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Developer, Platform Engineering position at Redfin?
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.
The Role
Base Pay Range: $150,800.00 - 203,900.00.
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. More information regarding these benefits and others can be found here. The information regarding compensation and other benefits included in this paragraph is only an estimate and is subject to revision from time to time as the Company, in its sole and exclusive discretion, deems appropriate. The Company may determine during its review of the proposed compensation and benefits provided for this position that the compensation and benefits for such position should be reduced. In no event will the Company reduce the compensation for the position to a level below the applicable jurisdictional minimum wage rate for the position.
Redfin is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workforce.
An inclusive culture is vital to Redfin's mission of making real estate better for people from all walks of life. We’re proud that Redfin is a place where different points of view and backgrounds are encouraged and respected. We constantly strive to build a company that reflects the world around us, based on our conviction that pursuing and developing talent of all types is the right way for a business to thrive over the long haul.
Redfin provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. If you need accommodation in the application or recruitment process because of a disability or special need, please contact recruitingteam@redfin.com
Redfin encourages individuals with criminal record histories to apply for employment and considers such individuals for employment consistent with the requirements of any applicable fair chance acts, including but not limited to the California, San Francisco and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Acts. Philadelphia applicants can access a copy of Philadelphia Fair Criminal Records Screening Standards ordinance poster here.
Redfin accepts applications on an ongoing basis.
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.
The Role
- 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.
- 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.
- Exposure to AI/CD tooling integration in engineering workflows is a strong plus.
- 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.
Base Pay Range: $150,800.00 - 203,900.00.
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. More information regarding these benefits and others can be found here. The information regarding compensation and other benefits included in this paragraph is only an estimate and is subject to revision from time to time as the Company, in its sole and exclusive discretion, deems appropriate. The Company may determine during its review of the proposed compensation and benefits provided for this position that the compensation and benefits for such position should be reduced. In no event will the Company reduce the compensation for the position to a level below the applicable jurisdictional minimum wage rate for the position.
Redfin is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workforce.
An inclusive culture is vital to Redfin's mission of making real estate better for people from all walks of life. We’re proud that Redfin is a place where different points of view and backgrounds are encouraged and respected. We constantly strive to build a company that reflects the world around us, based on our conviction that pursuing and developing talent of all types is the right way for a business to thrive over the long haul.
Redfin provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. If you need accommodation in the application or recruitment process because of a disability or special need, please contact recruitingteam@redfin.com
Redfin encourages individuals with criminal record histories to apply for employment and considers such individuals for employment consistent with the requirements of any applicable fair chance acts, including but not limited to the California, San Francisco and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Acts. Philadelphia applicants can access a copy of Philadelphia Fair Criminal Records Screening Standards ordinance poster here.
Redfin accepts applications on an ongoing basis.
Salary : $150,800 - $203,900