Sr. Software Engineer - Cloud Platform

rdccareers

Austin, Texas, United States · Austin · United States

Posted Nov 25, 2025

Other
Technology

Job 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.

Senior Software Engineer – Cloud Platform

What you’ll do

Implement cloud governance using IaC—including Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK—with reusable modules and templates.
Create and maintain Cloud Custodian policies and AWS SCPs for security, tagging, lifecycle, and compliance enforcement.
Drive cost optimization through rightsizing, reserved instances/Savings Plans, autoscaling, Spot Instances, and automated cost controls and alerts.
Integrate IaC, policy checks, and deployment pipelines into the internal developer portal.
Run and extend Backstage, including plugins, service catalogs, and onboarding flows.
Define and enforce EKS governance covering RBAC, network and pod security, admission controllers, upgrades, and provisioning.
Build automated remediation, monitoring, and reporting for governance and cost issues.
Collaborate with Security, Finance, and Engineering while producing documentation and runbooks.

What you’ll bring

5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering, with demonstrated success improving reliability.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
3+ years of hands-on AWS/GCP and Kubernetes experience, including cluster management.
Programming ability in Python, Go, or Java, with infrastructure automation and IaC experience.
Production experience with observability tools such as New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk.
Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tools such as CircleCI, Argo CD, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions, plus on-call and incident response.
Familiarity with Backstage is a plus.
Preferred exposure to chaos engineering, API gateways, GraphQL federation, cost optimization, or FinOps.

Technical skills

Cloud and infrastructure: AWS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, Kubernetes, Docker, and Istio.
CI/CD and GitOps: Argo CD, CircleCI, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions.
Observability: New Relic, Splunk, distributed tracing, metrics, and logging.
IaC and automation: Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, Kustomize, Python, Go, and Bash.
Platform services: Tyk Gateway, Apollo GraphQL, AWS Secrets Manager, and Vault.
Incident management: OpsGenie, PagerDuty, or ServiceNow.

Professional qualities

Strong communication and ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences.
Collaborative approach across Engineering, Product, and Business teams.
Self-motivated approach to solving complex problems within established practices and policies.
Data-driven decision-making with empathy for developer experience.

How we work

We balance creativity and innovation with in-person collaboration. For most roles, employees work three or more days in the office.

How we reward you

Benefits include medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage; family-forming benefits; 13 paid holidays; flexible time off; paid volunteer time; a 401(k) plan with a 3.5% company match; tuition reimbursement; financial-planning sessions; a student-debt retirement savings match; and office snacks and refreshments.

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.