Senior Staff SRE: Platform Reliability & Observability

News Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Realtor.com, based in Austin, TX, seeks a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability and observability across our platform infrastructure serving millions of users. You will help run EKS, Skyway CI/CD, and API gateways, while mentoring peers and improving customer experiences.

You will champion incident response, chaos testing, and cost-aware architectures with a strong technical contribution to the Observability Enablement team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ 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); on-call rotation and incident response.
• Preferred: Exposure to chaos engineering tools, API Gateway technologies (Tyk/Kong), GraphQL federation (Apollo), cost optimization initiatives, FinOps principles.

Responsibilities

• Ensure platform reliability and infrastructure (AWS/EKS, multi-region).
• Monitor SLOs/SLIs and participate in architecture reviews for reliability and cost-efficiency.
• Implement reliability patterns including automated failover and circuit breakers.
• Develop observability dashboards, alerts, and FinOps-informed cost optimization.
• Participate in on-call rotation and post-incident reviews; contribute to resilience runbooks.

Skills

SRE/DevOps experience

AWS & Kubernetes

Python/Go/Java

Observability tools

CI/CD & GitOps

Chaos engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Tyk Gateway

Apollo GraphQL

CircleCI

Argo CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

NewRelic

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Terraform

CloudFormation

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

Realtor.com, based in Austin, TX, seeks a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability and observability across our platform infrastructure serving millions of users. You will help run EKS, Skyway CI/CD, and API gateways, while mentoring peers and improving customer experiences.

You will champion incident response, chaos testing, and cost-aware architectures with a strong technical contribution to the Observability Enablement team.