Software Eng, Sr Staff - DevOps

About this role

Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.

Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.

We are seeking a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer to join our CI/CD Platform team. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape the shared delivery and infrastructure capabilities used by engineering across Realtor.com®. You will serve as a principal technical anchor for our CI/CD ecosystem and cloud-native runtime platforms, helping define the architectural patterns, engineering standards, and operating practices that enable teams to deliver software safely and efficiently.

This role combines deep hands-on engineering with broad technical leadership. You will help scale AWS and Kubernetes platforms, standardize enterprise CI/CD and GitOps workflows, strengthen service-mesh architecture, and build paved paths that allow product teams to deploy securely without becoming infrastructure experts. The role requires strong technical judgment and the ability to influence architecture and adoption across teams without relying on formal authority.

We believe in leveraging the best tools to solve problems faster. You will be expected to use AI coding assistants and LLMs thoughtfully to accelerate development, generate boilerplate, investigate complex failures, and improve documentation. You will also apply sound judgment to verify AI-generated output for security, performance, reliability, and accuracy.

What you’ll do

Cross-Organization Platform Architecture

• Own the technical architecture and long-term design patterns for a self-service CI/CD platform and cloud-native runtime environments used across engineering.

• Define practical standards for delivery, infrastructure, reliability, and platform operations while balancing developer autonomy with appropriate guardrails.

• Lead architecture reviews, author clear RFCs, and build alignment across Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure partners.

• Use operational data, developer feedback, and business priorities to sequence platform investments that improve delivery velocity, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

Production AWS, Kubernetes & Service Mesh

• Serve as the final escalation point and design authority for production AWS EKS environments spanning multiple clusters and regions.

• Define resilient cluster, networking, scaling, workload-placement, and disaster-recovery strategies for highly available containerized systems.

• Architect and evolve Istio service-mesh patterns for secure service-to-service communication, mTLS, traffic routing, ingress and egress gateways, canary releases, and circuit breaking.

• Guide the resolution of complex failures involving Kubernetes control planes, service-mesh data planes, networking, deployments, and distributed systems.

CI/CD, GitOps & Developer Experience

• Standardize and improve enterprise CircleCI and GitOps workflows using reusable templates, ArgoCD patterns, and self-service delivery capabilities.

• Abstract infrastructure complexity so product teams can build, test, and deploy securely and consistently across environments.

• Build internal tooling, Kubernetes operators, Terraform modules, and automation that remove systemic toil and technical debt.

• Establish feedback loops with engineering teams to measure adoption, identify friction, and continuously improve the platform experience.

Security, Policy & FinOps

• Design policy and security controls across infrastructure, pipelines, and runtime environments using OPA, Kyverno, IRSA, Network Policies, secrets management, and related approaches.

• Build automated controls for compliance, vulnerability management, cloud governance, and secure software delivery.

• Partner with Engineering, Security, and Finance to improve resource efficiency and implement cost-aware Kubernetes scaling and cloud operations.

• Ensure platform decisions account for security, resilience, performance, developer experience, and total cost of ownership.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor Senior and Staff DevOps engineers and help raise the technical bar across the organization.

• Influence teams through credibility, clear communication, thoughtful standards, and partnership rather than hierarchy.

• Lead through ambiguity, make tradeoffs explicit, and create durable systems and practices that scale beyond your immediate team.

What you’ll bring

Experience & Expertise

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure automation, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or distributed systems.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building, hardening, and troubleshooting production Amazon EKS environments across complex multi-cluster or multi-region topologies.

• 3+ years of deep experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting Istio or a comparable service-mesh platform, including traffic management and ingress and egress patterns.

• Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives across a large engineering organization, including experience influencing organizations of 200+ engineers and teams outside your immediate reporting structure.

• Proven experience defining standards, building reusable platform capabilities, and driving adoption through practical developer enablement.

Technical Skills

• Cloud and infrastructure: AWS, Amazon EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, networking, Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm.

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