Staff Engineer - DevOps
Realtor.com Careers · Austin, TX
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Jul 14, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior infrastructure role focused on building and scaling a shared CI/CD and Kubernetes platform used by engineering teams across the company. Day-to-day work spans GitOps delivery pipelines, multi-cluster AWS EKS operations, service mesh configuration, and security controls, alongside mentoring other engineers. Suited to someone with deep AWS and Kubernetes production experience who is comfortable owning platform tooling as a product.
Senior level · 8+ years · Austin, TX · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 160 people in the Austin, TX area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 45–240
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $137,069 (middle half $106,287–$172,440).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The job title is 'Staff DevOps Engineer' but the actual requirements — 8+ years of experience, deep technical ownership of a platform team, and mentoring responsibilities — are consistent with a Senior-level individual contributor rather than a true Staff-level org-wide technical authority. Seniority is assessed as Senior accordingly.
This role primarily BUILDS and SHIPS CI/CD platform tooling, infrastructure-as-code, and automation (15-1252 Software Developers). 15-1244 is listed as a runner-up because the role also involves significant operational responsibilities (EKS administration, cluster operations, incident response), but the dominant emphasis on building self-service platform products and writing automation code tips it to 15-1252.
The posting does not specify a work location city beyond indicating an in-office hybrid model (3+ days/week). Realtor.com's primary engineering offices include Austin, TX and Scottsdale, AZ; Austin is used as a best-guess CBSA. Hiring managers should verify the actual office location.
AWS sub-services (EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, IAM) are listed explicitly in the 'Technical Skills' requirements section alongside EKS. They are captured as separate required skills per the posting's enumeration, though in practice they represent general AWS fluency already gated by the 4+ years AWS requirement.
Karpenter appears only in the 'What you'll do' narrative as an example tool ('tools and patterns such as Karpenter'), not in the hard requirements section — listed as preferred.
CircleCI and ArgoCD are listed in the requirements section with the qualifier 'ideally with tools such as' in the experience block, but are then re-listed without qualification in the Technical Skills hard-requirements section. They are treated as required based on their explicit placement in the Technical Skills block.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
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