Realtor.com Careers

Realtor.com Careers

Sr Site Reliability Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 29 days ago
PythonJavaGoBashDistributed SystemsGitAWSDockerKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsCircleCIPrometheusGrafanaDatadogDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringGraphQLIncident ResponseCompliance

About the role

  • 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home.
  • How We Reward You: Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families.
  • At Realtor.com®, you'll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates.

Responsibilities

  • Implement and maintain highly available AWS infrastructure including EKS clusters, Fargate (ECS), and multi-region architectures
  • Support reliability of critical services: Skyway (CI/CD), Frontdoor (Tyk), Pantheon (Apollo GraphQL), and supporting infrastructure
  • Implement reliability patterns including circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and automated failover
  • Implement observability solutions using NewRelic for APM, distributed tracing, metrics, and logging for rapid troubleshooting
  • Build dashboards and alerts that reduce MTTD and MTTR
  • Identify infrastructure cost optimization opportunities and implement FinOps practices including rightsizing and resource lifecycle management
  • Support cost-conscious architecture decisions and CI/CD spend optimization (CircleCI, Argo CD)
  • Build dashboards and alerts that reduce MTTD and MTTR; contribute to observability standards across teams
  • Participate in game day exercises and disaster recovery simulations; create runbooks and automation for resilience
  • Participate in on-call rotation for critical systems; conduct post-incident reviews and implement improvements

Requirements

  • 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering with demonstrated success improving system reliability
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, IAM) and Kubernetes including cluster management
  • Proficient programming skills (Python, Go, or Java) with infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Production experience with observability tools (NewRelic, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk) and distributed systems
  • Experience with CI/CD platforms and GitOps workflows (CircleCI, Argo CD, Jenkins)

Nice to have

  • Exposure to chaos engineering tools, API Gateway technologies (Tyk/Kong), GraphQL federation (Apollo), cost optimization initiatives, FinOps principles

Skills

  • Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, Fargate, Lambda, VPC, Route53, CloudFront), Kubernetes, Docker, Istio Service Mesh
  • CI/CD & GitOps: Argo CD, CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
  • Observability: NewRelic - APM, distributed tracing, metrics & logging; Splunk - logging
  • IaC & Automation: Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, Kustomize, Python/Go/Bash
  • Platform Services: Tyk Gateway, Apollo GraphQL, AWS Secrets Manager, Vault
  • Incident Management: OpsGenie, PagerDuty, ServiceNow
  • Professional Qualities
  • Strong communication skills with ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences
  • Collaborative approach working across engineering, product, and business teams
  • Self-motivated with ability to solve complex problems within established practices and policies
  • Data-driven decision making with customer-centric approach and empathy for developer experience
  • How We Work:

Benefits

  • Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
  • Family forming benefits
  • Flexible Time Off
  • 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
  • Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
  • Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
  • Support incident response processes and contribute to System Health Scorecard
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