Realtor.com® is looking to build and operate backend services and data integrations to power personalized marketing experiences across CRM and Digital Marketing channels, ensuring reliability, observability, and scalability of data pipelines.
Requirements
- Proficiency in one or more of: TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Java/Kotlin; strong foundation in writing maintainable, testable code.
- Solid SQL skills and experience with Snowflake or comparable cloud data warehouses; familiarity with data modeling and working with structured/semi-structured data.
- Experience with event-driven systems and streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka/MSK) and building resilient consumers/producers
- Hands-on with AWS services (e.g., Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, MSK, API Gateway) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
- CI/CD expertise (preferably on CircleCI + GitHub + Argo) and a testing mindset across unit, integration, contract, and data validations.
- Strong observability practices (logs, metrics, traces) using tools like New Relic and Splunk; effective incident response and post-incident improvement.
- Experience with the Snowflake data platform and its streaming/batch components; DBT and Airflow familiarity.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services and data integrations that are secure, observable, and cost-efficient, using modern cloud patterns on AWS.
- Collaborate with data platform teams on the Snowflake and Kafka data platform (streaming and batch) to enable reliable data collection, processing, and access for near real-time marketing and analytics use cases.
- Contribute to streaming pipelines and consumers (e.g., Kafka/MSK) and batch workflows backed by Snowflake/DBT/Airflow/Hightouch, with a focus on correctness, performance, and operational excellence.
- Implement and extend CI/CD pipelines on the company’s deployment platform (CircleCI GitHub + Argo), driving paved-path adoption, test automation, and deployment safety.
- Help instrument, validate, and monitor clickstream and service events in partnership with data reliability teams, improving event health and taxonomy alignment across systems.
- Strengthen observability for services and pipelines (metrics, logging, tracing) to reduce mean time to detection/recovery and enable effective on-call rotations.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (marketing, engineering, product, analytics, privacy) to define requirements, de-risk designs, and ship incremental value.
Other
- 5+ years of experience building backend systems and/or data-intensive services in production, with ownership across design, implementation, and operations.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills; ability to partner with product, analytics, and other engineering teams to deliver outcomes.
- We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. Our employees work three days in our Austin headquarters where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.
- 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.
