Infra Team Lead

Who We Are

We're Redis. We built the product that runs the fast apps our world runs on. (If you checked the weather, used your credit card, or looked at your flight status online today, you’re welcome.) At Redis, you’ll work with the fastest, simplest technology in the business—whether you’re building it, telling its story, or selling it to our 10,000+ worldwide customers. We’re creating a faster world with simpler experiences. You in?

Redis is looking for an Infrastructure Team Lead to join our R&D department in Tel-Aviv.

Why would you love this job?

As a Team Lead for Redis R&D, you will be a hands-on technical leader designing and building infrastructure systems while guiding and mentoring a team of Infra Engineers. You’ll lead by example, driving best practices through your own engineering work and empowering the team to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.

You will be part of our cloud group, creating and supporting the entire development and deployment process of the fastest NoSQL clusters on earth, running many hundreds of clusters on top of all major public and private cloud infrastructures.

Our ideal candidate is a strong individual that loves to work with a diverse team of bright and ambitious people. You are passionate about delivering software at large scale. You like to utilise open-source tools and leverage automation to improve your speed and reach. You are eager to lead by example and help your team achieve great new goals. You are looking to mentor and grow the next generation of Infra/DevOps developers.

If you are passionate about software and the means to deliver it in cutting edge environments with the best tools, then this is the right challenge for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Building & Management: Recruit, mentor, and lead a team of infra DevOps developers focused on a large-scale, distributed cloud system.
• Technical Leadership & Hands-on Contribution: Actively participate in development, including coding, code reviews, and architectural decision-making, setting a high technical standard for the team.
• Feature Design & Prioritization: Lead the design and prioritization of new features and enhancements, emphasizing clean and highly efficient code.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product, DevOps, Architects, and other R&D teams to ensure alignment and delivery.
• Strategic Direction: Drive the technology roadmap and project timeline.
• Tooling & Automation: Partner with the Redis R&D and Cloud Operations teams to design, build, and maintain essential tools that streamline their operations.
  
  

What will you need to have?

• 2 + years of management experience leading technical teams
• 5 + years of backend coding experience in high level languages
• Infrastructure Software Development: Design and implement scalable infrastructure services in the cloud
• Solid understanding of internet architecture and networking concepts, including DNS, TLS/SSL, certificates, and web protocols (HTTP/S).
• Experience with Kubernetes, micro services and ecosystem (Helm, kustomize, Istio, CSI, GKE, EKS…)
• Experience using CI/CD (Jenkins, Flux, ArgoCD)
• Experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Augment) as a primary productivity and development aid
• Self-direction, ambition and an eagerness to learn new things
• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent
  
  

Extra Great If You Have

• Experience with configuration as code (Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet….).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CrossPlane) and configuration management
• Experience with Agile methodology.
• Experience with cloud based solutions at the architectural understanding level.
• Have participated in an end-to-end big data and/or large scale performance challenge.
  
  

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