Site Reliability Engineer - Observability & Cloud

News Corp

Austin (TX)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

47 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Realtor.com is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team in Austin. You will enhance reliability, scalability, and observability for our services, standardizing our observability stack with New Relic and migrating tools, while partnering with multiple engineering teams to deliver resilient, scalable systems.

Responsibilities include implementing SLI/SLOs, managing incident response, and building dashboards and automation.

Qualifications

2–4 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Software Engineering with a focus on system availability and monitoring.
Hands‑on experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
Familiarity with core SRE concepts, such as SLIs/SLOs, alerting thresholds, and error budgets.
Practical experience with AWS cloud environments and containerized workloads running on Kubernetes or Docker.

Responsibilities

Assist in implementing and monitoring SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for consumer‑facing services and critical user journeys.
Monitor golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, saturation) across web, mobile apps, and backend APIs.
Participate in production‑readiness checklists and assist with operational reviews for existing and upcoming services.
Configure and maintain observability instrumentation using New Relic or similar tools for APM, browser, mobile, logs, and distributed tracing.