Staff Engineer - DevOps at Realtor.com Careers | Austin, Texas | Rezi

Staff Engineer - DevOps at Realtor.com Careers

Staff Engineer - DevOps

Realtor.com Careers · Austin, Texas

1 weeks ago

Staff Engineer - DevOps

Realtor.com Careers · Austin, Texas

14 days ago
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About the Role

Join our CI/CD Platform team as a Staff DevOps Engineer to shape shared delivery and platform capabilities. You will scale CI/CD workflows, strengthen Kubernetes operations, and enhance the developer experience through secure, resilient, self-service platform tooling. This role involves driving initiatives in GitOps delivery, AWS EKS operations, container orchestration, service reliability, and infrastructure security, treating the delivery platform as a product.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and scale a self-service CI/CD platform supporting secure, reliable, and repeatable software delivery.
  • Standardize and evolve enterprise CI/CD workflows and multi-cluster GitOps delivery patterns using tools such as CircleCI and ArgoCD.
  • Build reusable pipeline templates, automation, and internal tooling to abstract infrastructure complexity 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.
  • Architect and support service mesh patterns for traffic regulation, secure communication, and safe rollout strategies.
  • Implement strong Kubernetes security controls, including IAM Roles for Service Accounts, Network Policies, and policy-driven validation.
  • Build with resilience, observability, performance, and cost-efficiency as core principles.
  • Partner with engineering teams to provide platform guidance, troubleshoot 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.
  • Utilize AI coding assistants and LLMs proficiently to accelerate development velocity, generate boilerplate, and troubleshoot complex debugging scenarios.

Requirements

  • 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 building or operating CI/CD and GitOps workflows in production, ideally with tools such as CircleCI and ArgoCD.
  • Experience supporting highly available distributed systems with strong operational and reliability practices.
  • 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.
  • Critical judgment to verify AI-generated outputs for security, performance, and accuracy.

Skills

  • AWS services (EKS, EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, IAM)
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Multi-cluster platform operations
  • CircleCI
  • ArgoCD
  • Modern delivery automation patterns
  • Network Policies
  • IRSA
  • Traffic management
  • Observability
  • Secure platform design
  • Terraform
  • Infrastructure automation tooling
  • AI coding assistants
  • LLMs

Location

  • Remote

Work Type

  • Hybrid

Experience Level

  • Staff
  • 8+ years
  • 4+ years
  • 3+ years

Benefits

  • Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
  • Family forming benefits
  • 13 Paid Holidays
  • Flexible Time Off
  • 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
  • Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
  • Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
  • 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
  • Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
  • Free snacks and refreshments in each office location

About the Company

  • Realtor.com® is the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance.
  • Our mission is to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.
  • We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration, with employees working three or more days in our offices.
  • We are committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families.
  • We provide a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and development opportunities.

Equal Opportunity

  • Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
  • Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.