Realtor.com Careers
Staff Engineer - DevOps
Austin, Texas, United States · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 6 days ago
Distributed SystemsAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDCircleCIDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringLLMsCybersecurityLeadershipCommunicationArgo CD
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.
- We believe in leveraging the best tools to solve problems faster.
- You will be expected to utilize AI coding assistants and LLMs proficiently to accelerate development velocity, generate boilerplate, and troubleshoot complex debugging scenarios.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and scale a self-service CI/CD platform that supports secure, reliable, and repeatable software delivery across engineering.
- Build reusable pipeline templates, automation, and internal tooling that abstract infrastructure complexity for product developers and improve developer experience.
- Build and manage production-grade AWS EKS infrastructure across resilient multi-region and multi-cluster environments.
- Optimize cluster efficiency, workload scheduling, and autoscaling using tools and patterns such as Karpenter.
- Support secure, healthy, and highly available container platforms used by engineering teams across the organization.
- Architect and support service mesh patterns that regulate traffic, enforce secure service-to-service communication, and enable safe rollout strategies such as canary deployments and circuit breaking.
- Implement strong Kubernetes security controls, including IAM Roles for Service Accounts, Network Policies, and policy-driven validation approaches.
- Build with resilience, observability, performance, and cost-efficiency as core principles across all platform initiatives.
- Partner closely with engineering teams to provide platform guidance, troubleshoot complex distributed systems issues, and improve delivery workflows.
- Mentor DevOps engineers, contribute to architectural reviews, and maintain an active hands-on role in infrastructure as code and system automation.
Nice to have
- 8+ years in cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, SRE, or DevOps platform roles.
- 4+ years of hands-on experience designing, provisioning, and troubleshooting AWS infrastructure at scale.
- 3+ years of production experience administering Amazon EKS and containerized workloads in complex environments.
- Experience supporting highly available distributed systems with strong operational and reliability practices.
Skills
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS services such as EKS, EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, and IAM
- Kubernetes
- and multi-cluster platform operations.
- CI/CD & GitOps: CircleCI, ArgoCD, and modern delivery automation patterns.
- Professional Qualities
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Collaborative approach working across engineering, product, and business teams.
- Self-motivated with the ability to solve complex problems within established practices and policies.
- Data-driven decision making with a customer-centric approach and empathy for developer experience.
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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
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