Senior Data Platform Reliability Engineer (SRE)

D.R. Horton; Arlington (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flex Spending Accounts

Life & Disability Insurance

Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and Hol

Company Holidays

Voluntary Benefits

Job summary

D.R. Horton, Inc. is seeking a Data Platform Reliability Engineer to automate platform provisioning, enhance observability, and improve security and resilience across data pipelines and services.

You will partner with engineering to embed reliability into new products, lead incident response, and drive continuous improvement in a large enterprise environment. The role requires 5+ years in platform engineering or related fields, strong automation skills, and experience with modern data platforms

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• 5+ years in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or cloud infra.
• Strong automation with Python/PowerShell/Go and IaC tools.
• Experience with observability, incident management, CI/CD, and cloud security.
• Knowledge of modern data platforms and distributed systems.
• Proactive, independent, and communicative with ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Automate platform provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and remediation using code and IaC.
• Define and operate SLIs, SLOs, service tiers, alerting and post-incident reviews.
• Implement observability across data pipelines, platform services, workloads, APIs, and AI services.
• Improve platform security, access, secrets management, resilience, DR, and performance.
• Collaborate with engineering to embed reliability into products before launch.
• Represent the function in cross-functional governance and readiness activities.
• Stay current on data, AI, and industry practices; apply value-driven capabilities.
• Identify opportunities where data/AI can create business value; act quickly.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field or equivalent experience

Tools

Python

PowerShell

Go

Infrastructure-as-Code

CI/CD

Job description

D.R. Horton, Inc. is seeking a Data Platform Reliability Engineer to automate platform provisioning, enhance observability, and improve security and resilience across data pipelines and services.

You will partner with engineering to embed reliability into new products, lead incident response, and drive continuous improvement in a large enterprise environment. The role requires 5+ years in platform engineering or related fields, strong automation skills, and experience with modern data platforms