Senior SRE: Platform Reliability & Observability Leader

Realtor.com

Austin (TX)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

9 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
401(k) plan with company match
Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Realtor.com is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the newly formed Operations Excellence team. You will help ensure the reliability, observability, and cost-conscious operation of our platform infrastructure used by millions of users.

You’ll work on AWS/EKS based systems, CI/CD pipelines, and incident response while mentoring engineers across the org and driving strategic reliability initiatives.

Qualifications

  • 8+ 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

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
  • Monitor SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for Tier 1/2/3 systems; participate in architectural reviews for reliability and cost-efficiency
  • Implement reliability patterns including circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and automated failover
  • Build dashboards and alerts that reduce MTTD and MTTR; contribute to observability standards across teams
  • Identify infrastructure cost optimization opportunities and implement FinOps practices including rightsizing and resource lifecycle management
  • Support incident response processes and contribute to System Health Scorecard
  • Contribute to Developer Experience metrics and platform adoption goals

Job description

Realtor.com is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the newly formed Operations Excellence team. You will help ensure the reliability, observability, and cost-conscious operation of our platform infrastructure used by millions of users.

You’ll work on AWS/EKS based systems, CI/CD pipelines, and incident response while mentoring engineers across the org and driving strategic reliability initiatives.

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