Software Engineer, Staff - DevOps

• Lead the design, implementation, and scaling of an enterprise self-service CI/CD platform and cloud-native application runtimes.
• Treat delivery infrastructure as a product with clear users, reliability goals, adoption measures, and feedback loops.
• Build reusable platform capabilities that abstract infrastructure complexity for product developers.
• Lead code reviews, architecture reviews, and technical planning for platform initiatives.

• Build and manage production-grade, highly available AWS EKS clusters across multiple regions and a resilient multi-cluster topology.
• Optimize compute resource scheduling and autoscaling using Karpenter and related Kubernetes capabilities.
• Define cluster lifecycle, networking, workload placement, capacity, and operational-readiness practices.
• Diagnose and resolve complex problems involving Kubernetes workloads, networking, deployments, and distributed systems.

• Deploy and configure Istio service mesh across environments to support advanced traffic management.
• Implement canary routing, circuit breaking, mTLS, and secure ingress and egress gateway patterns.
• Improve service-to-service reliability, observability, and operational safety without creating unnecessary platform complexity.

• Standardize and maintain enterprise-scale CircleCI workflows and multi-cluster GitOps pipelines using ArgoCD.
• Build reusable pipeline templates and deployment automation that support secure, repeatable application delivery.
• Implement Kubernetes security controls including IAM Roles for Service Accounts, Network Policies, secrets management, and policy-as-code validation.
• Integrate security, resilience, performance, and cost-efficiency into platform design and delivery practices.

• Mentor other DevOps engineers and help raise engineering maturity across teams.
• Build comprehensive monitoring and distributed tracing capabilities across multi-cluster environments using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or comparable tools.
• Partner with engineering squads to understand their delivery needs and improve platform adoption and developer experience.
• Maintain an active coding footprint in Terraform, Python, Go, Bash, and system automation.

• 8+ years of experience 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 multi-cluster containerized environments.
• 1–2+ years of hands-on experience deploying and operating Istio Service Mesh or a similar container-mesh solution.
• Experience building reusable CI/CD, GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, or platform capabilities used by engineering teams.

• Cloud and infrastructure: AWS, EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, Route 53, S3, Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm.
• CI/CD and GitOps: CircleCI, ArgoCD, GitOps workflows, reusable pipeline templates, runner infrastructure, and deployment automation.
• Kubernetes operations: Karpenter or comparable autoscaling, multi-cluster operations, workload scheduling, cluster lifecycle management, and networking.
• Service mesh and reliability: Istio or a comparable service mesh, Envoy, mTLS, traffic routing, canary releases, circuit breaking, observability, and incident response.
• Security and policy: IRSA, Kubernetes Network Policies, OPA or Kyverno, secrets management, vulnerability management, and secure supply-chain practices.
• IaC and automation: Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Helm, Python, Go, Bash, or comparable tools.

• Experience with CircleCI in production.
• Experience with multi-cluster Istio or another service mesh.
• Experience with security scanning and policy tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, OPA, or Kyverno.
• Certifications such as CKA, CKS, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform or GKE.

Professional Qualities

• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.

• Collaborative approach to working across engineering, security, finance, product, and business teams.

• Self-motivated and comfortable solving ambiguous problems in a growing platform organization.

• Data-driven decision-making with empathy for developer experience.

• Practical judgment about when to standardize, when to provide flexibility, and how to drive adoption of shared platform capabilities.

• RealOwnership mindset with a focus on durable systems, measurable outcomes, and continuous improvement.

How We Work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

How We Reward You:

Realtor.com® is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:

• 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