Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

OVERVIEW

CoStar delivers real-time, verified commercial real estate data that helps clients confidently spot great opportunities and make smart choices ahead of competitors. By combining the power of CoStar's independent research organization - the industry's largest - with global data delivery, software, and application solutions, clients can act on opportunities with confidence.

The Product Data Services team is responsible for the development of CoStar's backend services powering CoStar's products. We are searching for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and be the bridge between development and operations. This person will apply a software engineering mindset to system administration topics such as availability, performance, monitoring, alerting, emergency response, and capacity planning for our API platform at CoStar. We have the industry's largest set of Commercial Real Estate property data, which lets us create innovative products that must be stable, reliable and high performing.

This position is located in San Diego, and has the opportunity for hybrid work with up to two days remote per week. Four-day work weeks are also an option for those applicants that are interested.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Monitor the availability and performance of our mission-critical applications and services.
• Design and develop real time monitoring and alerting solutions that provide clarity into application health and performance.
• Understand the architecture of our applications and services and ensure that we have the necessary monitoring, alerting, etc. in place. And in those cases where it's lacking, collaborate with other technical stakeholders on a plan to implement.
• Clearly communicate scope and impact of any incidents to teammates and stakeholders, following through to closure as necessary.
• Troubleshoot sometimes complex issues, using your knowledge of application architectures and our monitoring tools, and work with other team members as necessary to get issues fixed and deployed.
• Effectively manage your time to multi-task between monitoring, occasional incident response and longer term project goals.
• Participate in service capacity planning, load testing, performance analysis and system tuning.
• Continually look to improve our performance, stability, tooling, processes, etc. as our applications evolve.
• Develop effective documentation for processes and tooling that you implement, so that other team members can use the tools and processes you put in place.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree required
• 3-5 years of experience with operational ownership of large scale application architectures.
• Expertise with monitoring tools such as DataDog, Kibana, etc.
• Experience with architectures that use REST APIs or Microservices
• Infrastructure as code using Cloudformation, Terraform or similar platforms
• Experience with AWS services such as S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, SageMaker, etc.
• Experience with SQL and No SQL databases
• Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle including CI and CD pipeline architecture
• Experience working with container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Programming languages / some developer background with either C#, NodeJS
• Server-less architecture methodologies
• Agile methodologies and working within sprint cycles

OVERVIEW OF COMPANY

Founded in 1987, CoStar Group is the leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Our suite of online services enables clients to analyze, interpret and gain unmatched insight on commercial property values, market conditions, and current availability.

Behind some of the most well-known brands in the industry, CoStar Group includes CoStar, the largest provider of CRE research and real-time data; LoopNet, the most heavily trafficked mobile and online real estate marketplace; Apartments.com, the premier rental home resource for renters, property managers and owners; Ten-X, our cutting-edge commercial real estate auction platform, STR, the leading provider of performance benchmarking and comparative analytics to the hotel industry; BizBuySell, the largest online marketplace for businesses-for-sales; and Lands of America, the leading operator of online marketplaces for rural real estate.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, CoStar Group maintains offices throughout the U.S. and in Europe, Canada, and Asia with a staff of over 5,500 worldwide.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. In addition to generous compensation and performance-based incentives, you'll be supported in both your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes, as well as Segways and bikes available for use during the day
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, prepared foods, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

Be part of a team of professionals enjoying the opportunity to learn, do, and grow in a rewarding atmosphere. But don't just take our word for it -- see why our team chose to work at and stay at CoStar Group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVbJRnJ2sX0

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing