{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"8a16763dd2fea0577fa553be","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8a16763dd2fea0577fa553be","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8a16763dd2fea0577fa553be","title":"Sr. Staff - DevOps","description":"Sr. Staff - DevOps\n\nLocation: Austin, TX, United States\n\nCategory: Technology\n\nJob ID: 3089\n\nApply Now\n\nDescription\n\nRecognized 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.\n\nJoin 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\nWhat you’ll do\n\nCross-Organization Platform Architecture\n\nOwn the technical architecture and long-term design patterns for a self-service CI/CD platform and cloud-native runtime environments used across engineering.\n\nDefine practical standards for delivery, infrastructure, reliability, and platform operations while balancing developer autonomy with appropriate guardrails.\n\nLead architecture reviews, author clear RFCs, and build alignment across Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure partners.\n\nUse operational data, developer feedback, and business priorities to sequence platform investments that improve delivery velocity, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.\n\nProduction AWS, Kubernetes & Service Mesh\n\nServe as the final escalation point and design authority for production AWS EKS environments spanning multiple clusters and regions.\n\nDefine resilient cluster, networking, scaling, workload-placement, and disaster-recovery strategies for highly available containerized systems.\n\nArchitect and evolve Istio service-mesh patterns for secure service-to-service communication, mTLS, traffic routing, ingress and egress gateways, canary releases, and circuit breaking.\n\nGuide the resolution of complex failures involving Kubernetes control planes, service-mesh data planes, networking, deployments, and distributed systems.\n\nCI/CD, GitOps & Developer Experience\n\nStandardize and improve enterprise CircleCI and GitOps workflows using reusable templates, ArgoCD patterns, and self-service delivery capabilities.\n\nAbstract infrastructure complexity so product teams can build, test, and deploy securely and consistently across environments.\n\nBuild internal tooling, Kubernetes operators, Terraform modules, and automation that remove systemic toil and technical debt.\n\nEstablish feedback loops with engineering teams to measure adoption, identify friction, and continuously improve the platform experience.\n\nSecurity, Policy & FinOps\n\nDesign policy and security controls across infrastructure, pipelines, and runtime environments using OPA, Kyverno, IRSA, Network Policies, secrets management, and related approaches.\n\nBuild automated controls for compliance, vulnerability management, cloud governance, and secure software delivery.\n\nPartner with Engineering, Security, and Finance to improve resource efficiency and implement cost-aware Kubernetes scaling and cloud operations.\n\nEnsure platform decisions account for security, resilience, performance, developer experience, and total cost of ownership.\n\nTechnical Leadership & Mentorship\n\nMentor Senior and Staff DevOps engineers and help raise the technical bar across the organization.\n\nInfluence teams through credibility, clear communication, thoughtful standards, and partnership rather than hierarchy.\n\nLead through ambiguity, make tradeoffs explicit, and create durable systems and practices that scale beyond your immediate team.\n\nWhat you’ll bring\n\nExperience & Expertise\n\n10+ years of experience in infrastructure automation, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or distributed systems.\n\n5+ years of hands-on experience building, hardening, and troubleshooting production Amazon EKS environments across complex multi-cluster or multi-region topologies.\n\n3+ years of deep experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting Istio or a comparable service-mesh platform, including traffic management and ingress and egress patterns.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading technical initiatives across a large engineering organization, including experience influencing organizations of 200+ engineers and teams outside your immediate reporting structure.\n\nProven experience defining standards, building reusable platform capabilities, and driving adoption through practical developer enablement.\n\nTechnical Skills\n\nCloud and infrastructure: AWS, Amazon EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, networking, Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm.\n\nCI/CD and GitOps: CircleCI, ArgoCD, GitOps workflows, reusable pipeline templates, deployment automation, and release strategies.\n\nService mesh and reliability: Istio, Envoy, mTLS, traffic routing, canary releases, circuit breaking, observability, and distributed-systems troubleshooting.\n\nSecurity and policy: IRSA, Kubernetes Network Policies, OPA or Kyverno, secrets management, vulnerability management, and secure supply-chain practices.\n\nInfrastructure automation: Terraform, Python or Go, Kubernetes operators, platform scripting, and internal developer tooling.\n\nCost and operations: Karpenter or comparable Kubernetes autoscaling, FinOps principles, capacity planning, incident response, and operational excellence.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\nExperience with CircleCI in a large-scale production environment.\n\nExperience operating multi-cluster Istio service meshes and Kubernetes networking at scale.\n\nCertifications such as CKA, CKS, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.\n\nExperience supporting multi-cloud environments or migration programs involving Google Cloud Platform and GKE.\n\nProfessional Qualities\n\nStrong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical decisions to diverse audiences.\n\nA collaborative, low-ego approach to architecture, standards, and cross-team problem solving.\n\nStrong systems thinking and judgment across reliability, security, performance, cost, and developer experience.\n\nComfortable staying hands-on while operating with broad organizational influence.\n\nSelf-motivated, pragmatic, and able to create clarity and momentum in ambiguous environments.\n\nHow We Work:\n\nWe balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work four 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.\n\nHow We Reward You:\n\nRealtor.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:\n\nInclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage\n\nFamily forming benefits\n\n13 Paid Holidays\n\nFlexible Time Off\n\n8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off\n\nImmediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match\n\nTuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs\n\n1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions\n\nStudent Debt Retirement Savings Match program\n\nFree snacks and refreshments in each office location\n\nDo the best work of your life at Realtor.com®\n\nHere, 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.\n\nDiversity 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.\n\nApply Now","company":"Newscorp1","rawCompany":"newscorp1","city":"Austin","state":"TX","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-22T11:43:57.509Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1299.00","title":"Computer Occupations, All Other","slug":"computer-occupations-all-other"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Sr. Staff - DevOps","description":"Sr. Staff - DevOps\n\nLocation: Austin, TX, United States\n\nCategory: Technology\n\nJob ID: 3089\n\nApply Now\n\nDescription\n\nRecognized 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.\n\nJoin 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\nWhat you’ll do\n\nCross-Organization Platform Architecture\n\nOwn the technical architecture and long-term design patterns for a self-service CI/CD platform and cloud-native runtime environments used across engineering.\n\nDefine practical standards for delivery, infrastructure, reliability, and platform operations while balancing developer autonomy with appropriate guardrails.\n\nLead architecture reviews, author clear RFCs, and build alignment across Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure partners.\n\nUse operational data, developer feedback, and business priorities to sequence platform investments that improve delivery velocity, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.\n\nProduction AWS, Kubernetes & Service Mesh\n\nServe as the final escalation point and design authority for production AWS EKS environments spanning multiple clusters and regions.\n\nDefine resilient cluster, networking, scaling, workload-placement, and disaster-recovery strategies for highly available containerized systems.\n\nArchitect and evolve Istio service-mesh patterns for secure service-to-service communication, mTLS, traffic routing, ingress and egress gateways, canary releases, and circuit breaking.\n\nGuide the resolution of complex failures involving Kubernetes control planes, service-mesh data planes, networking, deployments, and distributed systems.\n\nCI/CD, GitOps & Developer Experience\n\nStandardize and improve enterprise CircleCI and GitOps workflows using reusable templates, ArgoCD patterns, and self-service delivery capabilities.\n\nAbstract infrastructure complexity so product teams can build, test, and deploy securely and consistently across environments.\n\nBuild internal tooling, Kubernetes operators, Terraform modules, and automation that remove systemic toil and technical debt.\n\nEstablish feedback loops with engineering teams to measure adoption, identify friction, and continuously improve the platform experience.\n\nSecurity, Policy & FinOps\n\nDesign policy and security controls across infrastructure, pipelines, and runtime environments using OPA, Kyverno, IRSA, Network Policies, secrets management, and related approaches.\n\nBuild automated controls for compliance, vulnerability management, cloud governance, and secure software delivery.\n\nPartner with Engineering, Security, and Finance to improve resource efficiency and implement cost-aware Kubernetes scaling and cloud operations.\n\nEnsure platform decisions account for security, resilience, performance, developer experience, and total cost of ownership.\n\nTechnical Leadership & Mentorship\n\nMentor Senior and Staff DevOps engineers and help raise the technical bar across the organization.\n\nInfluence teams through credibility, clear communication, thoughtful standards, and partnership rather than hierarchy.\n\nLead through ambiguity, make tradeoffs explicit, and create durable systems and practices that scale beyond your immediate team.\n\nWhat you’ll bring\n\nExperience & Expertise\n\n10+ years of experience in infrastructure automation, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or distributed systems.\n\n5+ years of hands-on experience building, hardening, and troubleshooting production Amazon EKS environments across complex multi-cluster or multi-region topologies.\n\n3+ years of deep experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting Istio or a comparable service-mesh platform, including traffic management and ingress and egress patterns.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading technical initiatives across a large engineering organization, including experience influencing organizations of 200+ engineers and teams outside your immediate reporting structure.\n\nProven experience defining standards, building reusable platform capabilities, and driving adoption through practical developer enablement.\n\nTechnical Skills\n\nCloud and infrastructure: AWS, Amazon EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, networking, Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm.\n\nCI/CD and GitOps: CircleCI, ArgoCD, GitOps workflows, reusable pipeline templates, deployment automation, and release strategies.\n\nService mesh and reliability: Istio, Envoy, mTLS, traffic routing, canary releases, circuit breaking, observability, and distributed-systems troubleshooting.\n\nSecurity and policy: IRSA, Kubernetes Network Policies, OPA or Kyverno, secrets management, vulnerability management, and secure supply-chain practices.\n\nInfrastructure automation: Terraform, Python or Go, Kubernetes operators, platform scripting, and internal developer tooling.\n\nCost and operations: Karpenter or comparable Kubernetes autoscaling, FinOps principles, capacity planning, incident response, and operational excellence.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\nExperience with CircleCI in a large-scale production environment.\n\nExperience operating multi-cluster Istio service meshes and Kubernetes networking at scale.\n\nCertifications such as CKA, CKS, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.\n\nExperience supporting multi-cloud environments or migration programs involving Google Cloud Platform and GKE.\n\nProfessional Qualities\n\nStrong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical decisions to diverse audiences.\n\nA collaborative, low-ego approach to architecture, standards, and cross-team problem solving.\n\nStrong systems thinking and judgment across reliability, security, performance, cost, and developer experience.\n\nComfortable staying hands-on while operating with broad organizational influence.\n\nSelf-motivated, pragmatic, and able to create clarity and momentum in ambiguous environments.\n\nHow We Work:\n\nWe balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work four 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.\n\nHow We Reward You:\n\nRealtor.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:\n\nInclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage\n\nFamily forming benefits\n\n13 Paid Holidays\n\nFlexible Time Off\n\n8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off\n\nImmediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match\n\nTuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs\n\n1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions\n\nStudent Debt Retirement Savings Match program\n\nFree snacks and refreshments in each office location\n\nDo the best work of your life at Realtor.com®\n\nHere, 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.\n\nDiversity 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.\n\nApply Now","datePosted":"2026-09-22T11:43:57.509Z","dateModified":"2026-09-22T11:43:57.509Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Newscorp1","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Austin","addressRegion":"TX","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"8a16763dd2fea0577fa553be"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8a16763dd2fea0577fa553be"}}