Software Eng, Sr Staff - DevOps

Realtor.com Careers•Austin, TX

About The Position

Realtor.com® is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their CI/CD Platform team. This team is responsible for creating the infrastructure that allows the engineering organization to build and deliver features quickly, reliably, and securely. This role offers a high-impact opportunity for an experienced DevOps engineer to lead the design, implementation, and adoption of technical building blocks for next-generation CI/CD capabilities. The engineer will play a key role in building and supporting automated solutions for delivery workflows, while improving reliability, security, and speed across the platform. The Senior DevOps Engineer will help architect and manage modern CI/CD platforms, GitOps workflows, and production-grade Kubernetes infrastructure across AWS environments. They will partner with engineering teams to provide necessary tooling, guardrails, and platform expertise, bringing a strong automation mindset and a 'RealOwnership' approach.

Requirements

6+ years of cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, or DevOps platform experience.
3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS services such as EKS, EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, and IAM.
2+ years of expert-level experience administering production-grade Amazon EKS and containerized workloads.
1+ years of production experience designing and managing Istio Service Mesh in distributed or multi-cluster environments.
CI/CD & GitOps: CircleCI, ArgoCD, and self-service platform automation.
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, multi-cluster environments, and cluster scaling.
Security & Reliability: Kubernetes Network Policies, IRSA, mTLS, traffic management, and distributed systems troubleshooting.
Platform Engineering: Experience building tooling and paved-path solutions that enable engineering teams to move faster and more safely.

Nice To Haves

Experience with CircleCI.
Certifications such as CKA, CKS, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
Hands-on experience or familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and GKE.
Manage container scheduling and cluster scaling, to ensure secure, healthy, and highly available EKS environments.
Mentor engineering teams on DevOps best practices and help raise the maturity of our platform and delivery architecture.

Responsibilities

Architect and manage robust CircleCI pipelines, runner clusters, and self-service automation tools to streamline secure application delivery in cloud environments.
Deploy and evolve GitOps workflows across multiple clusters using ArgoCD to automate application lifecycle management across environments.
Partner with engineering squads to provide the tooling, automated pipelines, and technical expertise needed for successful delivery.
Design and manage production-ready AWS EKS infrastructure across resilient multi-region and multi-cluster architectures.
Manage container scheduling and cluster scaling using Karpenter, ensuring secure, healthy, and highly available EKS environments.
Enforce strong Kubernetes security practices through Network Policies and IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA).
Architect and support Istio Service Mesh implementations to regulate traffic, enforce mTLS, and protect service-to-service communication.
Develop advanced routing, ingress and egress gateway patterns, and traffic strategies such as circuit breaking and canary releases.
Diagnose and resolve sophisticated issues across service mesh data planes, multi-cluster deployments, and distributed systems operations.
Mentor engineering teams on DevOps best practices and help raise the maturity of our platform and delivery architecture.
Embed security, resilience, performance, and cost-efficiency as core considerations in every initiative.