Software Engineer - Cloud Platform

Realtor.com Careers•Austin, TX

12h

About The Position

Realtor.com® is seeking a Software Engineer to join its infrastructure organization, specifically within the Cloud Governance team. This role focuses on treating the internal developer experience as a product, building tools, integrations, and automation to enable engineering teams to ship faster, cost-effectively, and securely on AWS. The mission is to embed compliance, security, and financial visibility into automated, self-service developer workflows, making the compliant path the easiest one. The engineer will manage commitments, proactively flag blockers, and adopt a 'RealOwnership' mindset while building and scaling the Internal Developer Portal (IDP) based on the Backstage platform. The role also involves proficiently utilizing AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development, generate boilerplate, and troubleshoot, with the judgment to verify AI-generated outputs for security and performance.

Requirements

2–4 years of professional software development experience with a solid foundational understanding of both frontend and backend systems.
Hands-on experience building clean, interactive web user interfaces using React.
Strong proficiency in Node.js and Python for building APIs, microservices, and infrastructure automation.
Working knowledge of core AWS services, including compute/orchestration (Amazon EKS, Lambda) and storage/security (S3, IAM policies, roles, and security boundaries).
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation templates to provision cloud architecture.
Clear Communication: Ability to communicate tasks, technical challenges, and blockers clearly within a squad framework.
Squad-Level Collaboration: Active contributor to team collaboration, receptive to feedback, and comfortable iterating quickly to support fellow engineers.
Iterative Mindset: Excited by the 'Build, Reconstruct, Build Better' value, with the ability to fail fast and continuously improve code and processes.
Customer-Centric Execution: Empathy for the developer experience, focusing execution on making compliance intuitive and friction-free for end users.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Backstage, NestJS, REST/GraphQL, and basic CI/CD pipeline integration (GitHub Actions, CircleCI).

Responsibilities

Build and maintain the Backstage instance, working across the full stack from React-based frontend components to Node.js microservices.
Design, develop, and maintain custom plugins to integrate tooling (Finout, ServiceNow, CircleCI, monitoring suites, and security tools) into a single pane of glass.
Create automated 'Software Templates' that allow developers to spin up production-ready, pre-governed AWS environments directly from the portal.
Write Python and Node.js automation scripts to enforce cloud compliance, IAM best practices, and resource lifecycle rules.
Integrate AWS CloudWatch metrics, audit data, and cost frameworks into Backstage entity pages for real-time visibility into service health and cloud spend.
Ensure all automated portal actions and provisioned resources strictly adhere to corporate IAM, CloudTrail, and auditing standards.