Staff Engineer - DevOps
About The Position
Realtor.com® is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to join their CI/CD Platform team within their infrastructure organization. This role is a high-impact opportunity to help shape the shared delivery and platform capabilities that engineers across the company rely on daily. The Staff DevOps Engineer will be a key technical contributor responsible for scaling CI/CD workflows, strengthening multi-cluster Kubernetes operations, and improving the developer experience through secure, resilient, self-service platform tooling. The role involves driving critical platform initiatives across GitOps delivery, AWS EKS operations, container orchestration, service reliability, and infrastructure security, requiring a RealOwnership mindset to build and evolve paved paths for safe, consistent, and efficient product shipping. The position also emphasizes treating the delivery platform as a product and scaling it to support engineers company-wide, with an expectation to proficiently utilize AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development velocity, generate boilerplate, and troubleshoot complex debugging scenarios, while applying critical judgment to verify AI-generated outputs for security, performance, and accuracy.
Requirements
- 8+ years in cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, SRE, or DevOps platform roles.
- 4+ years of hands-on experience designing, provisioning, and troubleshooting AWS infrastructure at scale.
- 3+ years of production experience administering Amazon EKS and containerized workloads in complex environments.
- Experience building or operating CI/CD and GitOps workflows in production, ideally with tools such as CircleCI and ArgoCD.
- Experience supporting highly available distributed systems with strong operational and reliability practices.
- AWS services such as EKS, EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, and IAM; Kubernetes; Helm; and multi-cluster platform operations.
- CircleCI, ArgoCD, and modern delivery automation patterns.
- Network Policies, IRSA, traffic management, observability, and secure platform design.
- Terraform and other infrastructure automation tooling used to build paved-path platform capabilities.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Collaborative approach working across engineering, product, and business teams.
- Self-motivated with the ability to solve complex problems within established practices and policies.
- Data-driven decision making with a customer-centric approach and empathy for developer experience.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and scale a self-service CI/CD platform that supports secure, reliable, and repeatable software delivery across engineering.
- Standardize and evolve enterprise CI/CD workflows and multi-cluster GitOps delivery patterns using tools such as CircleCI and ArgoCD.
- Build reusable pipeline templates, automation, and internal tooling that abstract infrastructure complexity for product developers and improve developer experience.
- Build and manage production-grade AWS EKS infrastructure across resilient multi-region and multi-cluster environments.
- Optimize cluster efficiency, workload scheduling, and autoscaling using tools and patterns such as Karpenter.
- Support secure, healthy, and highly available container platforms used by engineering teams across the organization.
- Architect and support service mesh patterns that regulate traffic, enforce secure service-to-service communication, and enable safe rollout strategies such as canary deployments and circuit breaking.
- Implement strong Kubernetes security controls, including IAM Roles for Service Accounts, Network Policies, and policy-driven validation approaches.
- Build with resilience, observability, performance, and cost-efficiency as core principles across all platform initiatives.
- Partner closely with engineering teams to provide platform guidance, troubleshoot complex distributed systems issues, and improve delivery workflows.
- Mentor DevOps engineers, contribute to architectural reviews, and maintain an active hands-on role in infrastructure as code and system automation.
Benefits
- Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
- Family forming benefits
- 13 Paid Holidays
- Flexible Time Off
- 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
- Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
- Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
- 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
- Free snacks and refreshments in each office location
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
