Staff Engineer - DevOps
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 Staff DevOps Engineer to join our CI/CD Platform team within our growing infrastructure organization. This is a high-impact opportunity to help shape the shared delivery and platform capabilities that engineers across the company rely on every day. You will be a key technical contributor responsible for scaling CI/CD workflows, strengthening multi-cluster Kubernetes operations, and improving the developer experience through secure, resilient, self-service platform tooling. You will help drive critical platform initiatives across GitOps delivery, AWS EKS operations, container orchestration, service reliability, and infrastructure security. This role requires a RealOwnership mindset as you build and evolve the paved paths that allow product engineering teams to ship safely, consistently, and efficiently. You will play a pivotal role in treating the delivery platform as a product and helping scale it to support engineers across the company. We believe in leveraging the best tools to solve problems faster. You will be expected to utilize AI coding assistants and LLMs proficiently to accelerate development velocity, generate boilerplate, and troubleshoot complex debugging scenarios. This role requires the critical judgment to verify AI-generated outputs for security, performance, and accuracy, allowing you to focus on high-impact architectural challenges. What you’ll do: Platform Architecture & Delivery Design, implement, and scale a self-service CI/CD platform that supports secure, reliable, and repeatable software delivery across engineering. Standardize and evolve enterprise CI/CD workflows and multi-cluster GitOps delivery patterns using tools such as CircleCI and ArgoCD. Build reusable pipeline templates, automation, and internal tooling that abstract infrastructure complexity for product developers and improve developer experience. Cloud Infrastructure & Kubernetes Build and manage production-grade AWS EKS infrastructure across resilient multi-region and multi-cluster environments. Optimize cluster efficiency, workload scheduling, and autoscaling using tools and patterns such as Karpenter. Support secure, healthy, and highly available container platforms used by engineering teams ...