Staff Data Platform Engineer - Ingestion & Streaming

Realtor.com; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Rx coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Realtor.com is seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to join the Data Movement and Transformation team. You will design and operate a paved-path platform enabling product engineering, analytics, data science, and business teams to move and transform data across the organization with real-time and batch capabilities.

You will work across platform infrastructure, developer-facing tooling, and observability, focusing on production outcomes and easy onboarding for teams to use data workflows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building backend infrastructure, APIs, distributed systems, data platforms, or developer tooling.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Strong experience with event-driven systems and Kafka, including topics, partitions, consumer groups, delivery semantics, schema evolution, and operational troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable ingestion, streaming, replication, orchestration, and transformation capabilities used by many teams.
• Develop and improve platform APIs, services, libraries, templates, and paved paths for streaming, batch, bulk, and external data ingestion.
• Operate and evolve Kafka/MSK infrastructure, including topics, partitions, replication, retention, throughput, consumer groups, access controls, and upgrades.
• Build and maintain Schema Registry and Avro-based data contract workflows, including schema validation and versioning.

Skills

Backend infrastructure

Kafka/MSK

Airflow

dbt

Snowflake

TypeScript/JavaScript

Python

Kotlin

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Kafka Connect

Airflow MWAA

Schema Registry

KSQL

Job description

Realtor.com is seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to join the Data Movement and Transformation team. You will design and operate a paved-path platform enabling product engineering, analytics, data science, and business teams to move and transform data across the organization with real-time and batch capabilities.

You will work across platform infrastructure, developer-facing tooling, and observability, focusing on production outcomes and easy onboarding for teams to use data workflows.