Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Opendoor
$177.6-222k
+ RSUs + Bonuses
End-to-end online platform for selling and buying homes
Open for applications
End-to-end online platform for selling and buying homes
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$177.6-222k
+ RSUs + Bonuses
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power life's progress one move at a time.
Role
Who you are
- If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, have deep experience in AWS and Kubernetes, and are passionate about infrastructure as code and automation, we’d love to hear from you
- 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or site reliability engineering roles
- Strong expertise with AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, IAM, VPC, RDS, S3, etc.)
- Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS) in production environments
- Proficient in infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CDK
- Experience with microservices and distributed systems architectures
- Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Bash, Go)
- Proven experience with monitoring, logging, and observability systems
- Solid understanding of networking, security, and cloud infrastructure best practices
Desirable
- Experience in a high-scale, SaaS or cloud-native environment
- Familiarity with service meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) and container runtimes
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or Jenkins
- AWS Certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer) are a plus
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a seasoned Staff Infrastructure Engineer to join our engineering team and lead the design, development, and evolution of our cloud infrastructure
- In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of scaling our platform, optimizing cloud operations, and driving infrastructure best practices in a modern, services-based architecture
- You’ll work closely with the product engineering, developer experience and security teams to ensure our infrastructure is robust, secure, scalable, and aligned with our product goals
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure in AWS using best practices
- Lead our efforts in Kubernetes (EKS) architecture, cluster management, and deployment strategies
- Collaborate with application and platform engineering teams to optimize microservices deployment, CI/CD workflows, and service orchestration
- Define and implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or AWS CDK
- Drive observability and performance monitoring strategies using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or CloudWatch
- Champion DevOps culture across the organization and mentor other engineers on cloud-native best practices
- Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
- Conduct architecture reviews, performance tuning, and capacity planning
- Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies, proactively recommending improvements
Our take
Opendoor makes selling homes easy and stress-free by cutting out the prolonged processing time usually involved with a sale. Sellers can offload a house quickly and easily to the company for cash and a 6-9% fee. Currently operating in a growing number of markets nationwide, Opendoor has chimed well with millennials who gel quickly with online businesses that offer solutions to problems they encounter.
This buying and selling model doesn't come without risk. The longer Opendoor keeps a property, the lower its profit margin. However, Opendoor's performance has been anything but disappointing; it went public in 2021, with its pre-SPAC merger presentation calling for $3.5 billion in revenue. Its actual revenue trounced it, coming in at $8 billion - more than double its estimate.
Opendoor's largest competitor Zillow dropped out of the space in late 2021 because it struggled to price the homes it acquired accurately. Opendoor's closest remaining competitor is Offerpad, which does just a fraction of the transaction volume that Opendoor does. With strong earnings coming out of 2024, if Opendoor can continue to ride on this success long term it will have an enormous lead on existing and future competitors, giving it a shot to become the overwhelming market leader.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Mar 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Sep 2018
$400m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company benefits
- Save for tomorrow: Select our Pre-tax or Roth 401k plans to save towards retirement
- Healthy healthcare: Medical, dental and vision is 100% covered for employees
- Family planning: We offer specialty programs like Carrot, Cleo & Ginger
- Flexible vacation: Most of our team take at least 20 days off per year to decompress and be their best
- Resource groups: Join the group that works for you
- Income protection: 100% company sponsored: life insurance short term and long term disability
- Other: Flexible spending account, commuter benefit, employee assistance programs, and paid parental leave
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Carrie Wheeler
(CEO)Initially joined Opendoor in 2019 as a Board Member, before becoming the CFO in 2020 and CEO in 2022. Previously a Partner and the Head of Retail and COnsumer Investing at TPG Capital as well as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs.
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