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.
You will contribute to the next generation of our CI/CD platform and cloud-native runtime environment. Your work will include automated delivery workflows, GitOps, AWS EKS, Kubernetes security, service mesh capabilities, and developer-focused tooling. You will partner closely with engineering teams to reduce delivery friction, improve reliability, and help establish practical DevOps standards across the organization.
We believe in leveraging the best tools to solve problems faster. You will be expected to use AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development, generate boilerplate, investigate complex issues, and improve documentation. You will also apply sound judgment to verify AI-generated output for security, performance, reliability, and accuracy.
What you’ll do
CI/CD Platform & Delivery Engineering
- Architect and manage CircleCI pipelines, runner infrastructure, and self-service automation that support secure application delivery.
- Build and improve shared CI/CD capabilities that help engineering teams deliver software accurately, reliably, and with speed.
- Deploy GitOps workflows across multiple clusters using ArgoCD to automate application lifecycle management across environments.
- Partner with engineering teams to provide technical guidance, automated pipelines, reusable templates, and platform tooling.
- Design and manage production-ready AWS EKS infrastructure within resilient multi-region and multi-cluster architectures.
- Manage container scheduling and cluster scaling using Karpenter and related Kubernetes capabilities.
- Maintain the health, availability, security, and operational readiness of EKS environments.
- Diagnose and resolve issues involving Kubernetes workloads, networking, deployments, and distributed systems.
- Support Istio service mesh implementations that regulate traffic, enable mTLS, and protect communication between microservices.
- Develop and maintain routing, ingress and egress gateway, circuit-breaking, and canary-release patterns.
- Enforce Kubernetes security practices using Network Policies, IAM Roles for Service Accounts, and related controls.
- Incorporate security, resilience, performance, observability, and cost-efficiency into platform initiatives.
- Mentor engineering teams on DevOps practices and contribute to operational maturity across the organization.
Experience & Expertise
- 6+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS services, including EKS, EC2, VPC, Route 53, S3, and IAM.
- 2+ years of experience administering production-grade Amazon EKS and containerized workloads.
- 1+ year of production experience designing and managing Istio Service Mesh in highly distributed or multi-cluster environments.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and Kubernetes-based platform capabilities.
- Cloud and infrastructure: AWS, Amazon EKS, EC2, VPC, Route 53, S3, IAM, Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm.
- CI/CD and GitOps: CircleCI, ArgoCD, GitOps workflows, runner infrastructure, deployment automation, and release strategies.
- Kubernetes operations: Karpenter or comparable autoscaling approaches, IRSA, Network Policies, and multi-cluster operations.
- Service mesh and reliability: Istio or a comparable service mesh, mTLS, traffic routing, canary releases, observability, and distributed-systems troubleshooting.
- Automation: Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code, Python, Go, Bash, and platform scripting.
- Production experience with CircleCI.
- Certifications such as CKA, CKS, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform or GKE.
Professional Qualities
Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences.
Collaborative approach working across engineering teams to improve shared systems and delivery practices.
Self-motivated and comfortable solving complex platform problems with a high degree of ownership.
Pragmatic, systems-oriented mindset with strong judgment around reliability, security, performance, and developer experience.
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
Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®
Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.
Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.
Realtor.com Austin, Texas, USA Office
Our office is located in the vibrant east side of I-35, adjacent to downtown Austin, offering a prime, easily accessible location. We prioritize both productivity and comfort, with modern sit/stand desks and complimentary cold brew available to fuel your day.
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