Sr Site Reliability Engineer
Realtor.com Careers
| Company | Realtor.com Careers |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Austin |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Senior |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 23 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 31 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
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 Site Reliability Engineer to join our newly formed Operations Excellence organization, reporting to the Director, Operations Excellence. This role will contribute to the reliability, observability, and operational excellence of our platform infrastructure serving millions of users. As a Senior SRE, you will be a strong technical contributor who implements best practices, solves complex problems, and enables our 600+ engineers to deliver exceptional customer experiences. You will work on critical platform systems including EKS infrastructure, Skyway (CI/CD), Frontdoor (Tyk API Gateway), Pantheon (Apollo GraphQL Federation), and our observability stack, while contributing to chaos engineering practices and cost optimization initiatives with measurable ROI.
What You'll Do:
Platform Reliability & Infrastructure
Implement and maintain highly available AWS infrastructure including EKS clusters, Fargate (ECS), and multi-region architectures
Support reliability of critical services: Skyway (CI/CD), Frontdoor (Tyk), Pantheon (Apollo GraphQL), and supporting infrastructure
Monitor SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for Tier 1/2/3 systems; participate in architectural reviews for reliability and cost-efficiency
Implement reliability patterns including circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and automated failover
Observability & Cost Optimization
Implement observability solutions using NewRelic for APM, distributed tracing, metrics, and logging for rapid troubleshooting
Build dashboards and alerts that reduce MTTD and MTTR; contribute to observability standards across teams
Identify infrastructure cost optimization opportunities and implement FinOps practices including rightsizing and resource lifecycle management
Support cost-conscious architecture decisions and CI/CD spend optimization (CircleCI, Argo CD)
Chaos Engineering & Incident Response
Execute chaos engineering experiments to identify system weaknesses; contribute to frameworks for safe production testing
Participate in game day exercises and disaster recovery simulations; create runbooks and automation for resilience
Participate in on-call rotation for critical systems; conduct post-incident reviews and implement improvements
Support incident response processes and contribute to System Health Scorecard
Technical Contribution
Contribute as a strong technical individual contributor to the Operations Excellence team
Collaborate with Platform Engineering, Quality Engineering, and product teams on reliability initiatives
Support security initiatives including AWS Secrets Manager migration and compliance requirements (SOC 2, PCI, GDPR)
Contribute to Developer Experience metrics and platform adoption goals
May provide technical guidance to junior team members
What You'll Bring:
5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering with demonstrated success improving system reliability
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
3+ years hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, IAM) and Kubernetes including cluster management
Proficient programming skills (Python, Go, or Java) with infrastructur
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