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Realtor.com · 15 hours ago

Senior Data Engineer

Austin, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Realtor.com® is a leading online real estate platform that connects buyers, sellers, and renters with expert guidance. The Senior Data Engineer will design and operate backend services and data integrations to enhance personalized marketing experiences, ensuring the reliability and scalability of data pipelines for millions of users.

PropTechReal EstateRental Property

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

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

Qualification

AWS servicesSnowflakeKafkaCI/CD expertiseTypeScript/Node.jsPythonJava/KotlinSQL skillsData modelingCollaboration skillsCommunication skillsObservability practices

Required

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

Preferred

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

Benefits

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

Company

Realtor.com

Glassdoor3.4

Realtor.com is an online platform that allows users to search for real estate property records, houses, condos and lands. It is a sub-organization of Move.

Founded in 1996

Santa Clara, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.realtor.com/

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