Senior Data Engineer

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 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. Beyond simple usage, this role requires the critical judgment to verify AI-generated outputs for security, performance, and accuracy. You should be comfortable integrating AI tooling into your daily workflow to eliminate repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on high-impact architectural and strategic engineering challenges.

The Work You’ll Do:
You’ll design, build, and operate backend services and data integrations that power personalized marketing experiences across CRM and Digital Marketing channels at Realtor.com®. You’ll work across the marketing technology stack—connecting internal data platforms to tools that activate, measure, and optimize campaigns. Your work will ensure the reliability, observability, and scalability of data pipelines that enable millions of users to receive relevant messages at the right time.

• 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.
• Write clear technical documentation, contribute to runbooks, and participate in design and code reviews to raise engineering quality and knowledge sharing.
• Champion reliability and governance: adopt data lineage, ownership, and catalog tooling; incorporate validation and guardrails that prevent bad data from propagating.

What You’ll Bring:

• 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..
• 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.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills; ability to partner with product, analytics, and other engineering teams to deliver outcomes.

Nice To Have Experience:

• Experience with CRM and digital marketing platforms (Braze, Cordial, Google Ads, Meta Ads, etc)
• Experience with the Snowflake data platform and its streaming/batch components; DBT and Airflow familiarity.
• Background in clickstream data reliability: event taxonomy, validation tooling, event health monitoring, and developer workflows that “shift-left” data quality.
• Familiarity with tracking and SDK ecosystems (e.g., Tracking SDK and “Direct Send”), experimentation, and downstream analytics integrations.
• Knowledge of data governance practices and lineage/discoverability platforms like the Data Catalog; exposure to privacy and compliance workflows (e.g., CCPA/CPRA).
• Experience operating services on Kubernetes (EKS), GitOps/ArgoCD, and adopting paved-path CI/CD patterns on CircleCI.

How We Work:

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.

How We Reward You:

Realtor.com® is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing 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 degreed 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.