Staff Engineer - Cloud Platform

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 Software Engineer - Cloud Platform to join our growing infrastructure organization. This is a high-impact opportunity to help build and shape the Cloud Platform team and the foundational capabilities that support engineers across the company.

You will be a senior technical contributor responsible for defining cloud standards, scaling platform capabilities, and improving the developer experience for teams building and operating products on AWS. You will take ownership of cloud governance, automated remediation, internal developer tooling, self-service infrastructure, and cost optimization, turning complex infrastructure requirements into practical capabilities that engineering teams can adopt.

This is a high-impact opportunity with broad visibility across Engineering, Security, and Finance. You will help establish the operating model for a growing Cloud Platform team while maintaining a hands-on role in architecture, automation, and platform delivery.

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, document systems, and troubleshoot complex problems. You will apply critical judgment to verify AI-generated output for security, performance, reliability, and accuracy.

What you’ll do

Cloud Platform Architecture & Standards

• Define and evolve reusable cloud platform patterns for AWS infrastructure, production Kubernetes, account governance, networking, identity, security, and operational readiness.
• Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure-as-code modules, templates, and reference architectures using Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or comparable tools.
• Establish practical platform standards that balance developer autonomy with security, reliability, compliance, and cost requirements.
• Partner with engineering leaders and technical teams to assess platform needs, make architecture tradeoffs, and guide adoption of shared capabilities.

Cloud Governance & Automated Remediation

• Implement and maintain governance controls for security, tagging, resource lifecycle, account configuration, and compliance across AWS environments.
• Build policy-as-code and automated remediation capabilities using Cloud Custodian, AWS Organizations, Service Control Policies, or equivalent technologies.
• Create detection, reporting, and remediation workflows for configuration drift, cloud risk, orphaned resources, and cost issues.
• Work with Security, Finance, and Engineering to translate governance requirements into automated, developer-friendly controls.

Internal Developer Platform & Paved Paths

• Build and improve self-service platform capabilities that allow engineering teams to provision and operate infrastructure without unnecessary manual intervention.
• Run and extend internal developer portal capabilities such as Backstage, including service catalogs, plugins, onboarding workflows, and platform documentation.
• Integrate infrastructure-as-code, policy checks, security validation, and operational readiness into delivery workflows.
• Develop reusable tooling, automation, and diagnostics that reduce developer friction and improve platform adoption.

AWS, Kubernetes, FinOps & Reliability

• Define and maintain governance for AWS and production Kubernetes/EKS environments, including access, security, networking, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Support reliable containerized workloads using Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and related cloud-native technologies.
• Drive cost optimization through rightsizing, utilization analysis, reserved capacity, Savings Plans, spot usage, autoscaling, and workload lifecycle management.
• Build cost controls, dashboards, alerts, and reporting that help teams understand resource consumption and make cost-conscious architecture decisions.
• Improve observability and contribute to incident response, post-incident reviews, runbooks, and reliability improvements for shared platform capabilities.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams through architecture reviews, design guidance, documentation, and hands-on delivery.
• Mentor engineers in infrastructure automation, cloud governance, platform engineering, and operational best practices.
• Build alignment across Engineering, Security, Finance, and other business partners.
• Maintain an active coding footprint in Python, Go, Java, Bash, or similar languages used to build platform automation and internal tooling.

What you’ll bring

Experience & Expertise

• 8+ years of experience in cloud platform, DevOps, infrastructure, SRE, or software engineering roles with significant infrastructure ownership.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience designing, provisioning, and troubleshooting AWS infrastructure in production environments.
• 3+ years of experience managing production-grade Kubernetes or Amazon EKS environments.
• Demonstrated experience building reusable platform capabilities, cloud governance systems, internal tooling, or self-service infrastructure used by multiple engineering teams.
• Experience influencing technical standards and architecture across team boundaries without relying on formal management authority.

Technical Skills

• Cloud and infrastructure: AWS, EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, Fargate, Route 53, AWS Organizations, and related cloud services.
• Kubernetes and containers: Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, Helm, cluster governance, workload security, networking, and lifecycle management.
• IaC and automation: Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Terragrunt, Ansible, Python, Go, Java, or Bash.
• CI/CD and GitOps: ArgoCD, CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or comparable delivery platforms.
• Governance and security: Cloud Custodian, AWS Service Control Policies, policy-as-code, IAM, RBAC, secrets management, and vulnerability management.
• Developer platforms: Backstage, service catalogs, internal developer portals, self-service infrastructure, platform APIs, or paved-path design.
• Observability and operations: Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, incident response, and post-incident analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience with Cloud Custodian, Backstage, AWS Service Control Policies, or FinOps practices.
• Experience with Istio or another service mesh, including secure service-to-service communication and traffic management.
• Experience with multi-account, multi-region, hybrid-cloud, or regulated environments.
• Experience building automated remediation, policy enforcement, or cloud cost-management systems.
• Certifications such as CKA, CKS, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional.

Professional Qualities

• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
• Collaborative approach to working across engineering, security, finance, product, and business teams.
• Self-motivated and comfortable solving ambiguous problems in a growing platform organization.
• Data-driven decision-making with empathy for developer experience.
• Practical judgment about when to standardize, when to provide flexibility, and how to drive adoption of shared platform capabilities.
• RealOwnership mindset with a focus on durable systems, measurable outcomes, and continuous improvement.

How We Reward You

Realtor.com®  is committed to investing in the health and well-being 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 degree 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.