Staff Site Reliability Engineer: Platform Reliability & Observability

Realtor; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

13 Paid Holidays

Flexible Time Off

401(k) with company match

Tuition Reimbursement

Volunteer Time Off

Office snacks

Job summary

Realtor.com is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join its Operations and Enablement org. You will enhance platform reliability, observability, and cost efficiency across global infra used by 200+ engineers, focusing on EKS, Skyway, Frontdoor, and Pantheon stacks.

You will contribute technically as an IC, mentor peers, and collaborate with Platform, Quality, and product teams to improve developer experience and platform adoption.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infra Engineering with proven reliability improvements.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years hands-on AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, IAM) and Kubernetes experience.
• Proficient in Python/Go/Java with infrastructure automation (IaC) experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain highly available AWS infrastructure including EKS clusters, Fargate, and multi-region setups.
• Monitor SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; drive reliability improvements across services.
• Develop observability dashboards and FinOps practices to optimize costs.
• Lead on-call rotations, incident postmortems, and resilience improvements.

Skills

Strong communication

Collaborative

Data-driven decisions

Self-motivated

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

AWS

EKS

EC2

RDS

S3

CloudWatch

IAM

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Python

Go

Java

CircleCI

Argo CD

Jenkins

NewRelic

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Job description

Realtor.com is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join its Operations and Enablement org. You will enhance platform reliability, observability, and cost efficiency across global infra used by 200+ engineers, focusing on EKS, Skyway, Frontdoor, and Pantheon stacks.

You will contribute technically as an IC, mentor peers, and collaborate with Platform, Quality, and product teams to improve developer experience and platform adoption.