About Redwood Materials
Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, on a simple but radical idea: the critical minerals powering the energy transition already exist. They just need to come back. Today Redwood is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America — recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain. On the energy side, Redwood has deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world, delivering power to AI data centers in months rather than years using proprietary energy architecture engineered entirely in-house. The company is profitable, the market it operates in is projected to grow 20 to 50 times over the next decade, and Redwood is the only company with the supply chain, the technology, and the operational scale to lead it.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Redwood Materials is looking for motivated and talented DevOps engineers to help architect, build, and deploy infrastructure and applications in a hybrid AWS and Kubernetes environment. These applications will cover use cases from web integrations with auto manufacturers to predictive machine controllers to new battery-based energy products. The ideal candidate is someone experienced with creating, managing, and supporting both AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes (self-hosted and AWS EKS based) using infrastructure-as-code tools. This is an opportunity to join during a critical growth phase and build green field software experiences and capabilities which will have a significant impact on the company’s day-to-day operations and ability to scale.
Responsibilities Will Include:
- Leverage existing in-house AWS architectures and design new ones where needed, using the CDK tool kit to manage and create AWS resources.
- Operationalize workloads in AWS and Kubernetes, helping to design and implement monitoring solutions and deployment pipelines.
- Enhance existing and implement new build/test/deploy automated pipelines.
- Partner with on-prem counterparts to drive hybrid infrastructure projects.
- Apply industry best practices (automation through infrastructure-as-code, security, etc.)
- Perform root cause analysis of production errors and resolve technical issues.
- Author and maintain detailed design documents and system architecture diagrams.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience as a DevOps engineer or in a similar software engineering role developing solutions in AWS.
- Similar hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes workloads.
- Solid knowledge and experience with AWS services: IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, VPC, DynamoDB, etc.
- Solid knowledge and experience with Kubernetes and containerization: configuring and managing clusters, helm chart development and deployment, building containers, working with docker, etc.
- Experience automating AWS solutions using infrastructure-as-code tools, such as CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
- Fluency in Python strongly desired.
- Experience with Linux, Git.
- An understanding of security best practices, and the experience, to know when and where to apply them.
- Working knowledge of databases (relational and non-relational) a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to manage production workloads (debugging, monitoring, alerting).
Working Conditions:
- Infrequent night/weekend work if production systems are down and require immediate attention. (No formal on-call rotation; part of shared team responsibility.)
The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience as a DevOps engineer or similar software engineering role developing AWS solutions
- Hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes workloads
- Knowledge and experience with AWS services including IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, VPC, and DynamoDB
- Knowledge and experience managing Kubernetes clusters, developing and deploying Helm charts, building containers, and using Docker
- Experience automating AWS solutions with infrastructure-as-code tools such as CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation
- Fluency in Python
- Experience with Linux and Git
- Understanding and application of security best practices
- Working knowledge of relational and non-relational databases
- Ability to manage production workloads, including debugging, monitoring, and alerting
Redwood Materials Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Redwood Materials and has not been reviewed or approved by Redwood Materials.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered okay to good overall, often competitive for engineering and corporate roles while closer to local norms in hourly operations.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Stock options or equity are included in many offers, providing additional upside beyond base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is viewed positively, with maternity and paternity leave standing out within the package.
Redwood Materials Insights
What We Do
Redwood is developing a fully closed-loop, domestic supply chain for lithium-ion batteries. Our team manufactures critical battery components using as many recycled batteries as possible — localizing a 50,000-mile global supply battery chain on a single site.
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