CoStar Suite - Senior Site Reliability Engineer

CoStar Suite - Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.  Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. 

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers.  We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.  We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.  This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.  By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.   

CoStar  

CoStar is the global leader in commercial real estate information, analytics and news. Commercial Real Estate industry professionals around the globe use CoStar to access the most comprehensive data to make decisions with confidence. CoStar delivers immediate, verified commercial real estate information on over 5.9 million properties across every market.   

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As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for CoStar Suite is responsible for improving the availability, reliability, performance, security, capacity, and efficiency of the application through software engineering best practices. Your job is to make sure everything that goes into production is awesome. You will help set coding standards, perform code review, coach other team members on how to develop high-performing software, and spend time writing great code to solve complex problems. You will help with system design, architectural diagrams, and management of service dependencies. You will own the monitoring and logging systems and be responsible for the data recovery process and high availability mechanisms. You will have access to operational and analysis tools to help detect bottlenecks and performance issues throughout the enterprise. You will work closely with developers, DevOps, networking and security teams to achieve your goals.

Site Reliability Engineers are involved in all aspects of the software development life cycle: Conceptual Design, Development, Testing, Deployment, and Production Ops.

This position is located in Washington, DC and offers a schedule of 3 days onsite, 2 days remote. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and provide operational support for our full-stack software applications

• Collaborate with development operations staff to scale, monitor and troubleshoot the system infrastructure (on-premise & in the cloud) to support our growing ecosystem

• Increase system resilience and serve large customer volumes with expert-level coding, bulletproof release and change management skills

• Improve and write automation and increase system’s diagnostic and debugging capabilities

• Collect operating system data and report performance metrics to stakeholders

• Troubleshoot and debug production issues as they arise

• Adhere to industry standard security best practices

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college

• A track record of commitment to prior employers

• 7 or more years of experience with modern technologies, like React, Vue, TypeScript, NodeJS, C#, .Net, OpenSearch, Kafka, SQL, NoSQL

• Ability to debug, profile, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.

• Experience in Agile/Scrum processes, and Continuous delivery practices

• Experienced in unit, performance, and automation testing

• Deeply understand what drives the business for which you are building software

• The candidate must be self-motivated, systematic problem-solving, a great communicator, have a sense of ownership and drive.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Expertise in designing, analyzing, troubleshooting, and capacity planning large-scale distributed systems.

• Experience with any of the following frontend frameworks: React/Angular/Vue

• Experience with the following tools: SQL (any RDBS), Bash, PowerShell, TFS/Azure DevOps, & Git.

• Experience with operating systems (e.g., Windows/Linux Distros/Debian/Kali), administration (e.g., Filesystems, System RPC calls, etc.) and networking (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, etc.).

• Experience in one or more of the following: AWS, GCP, Python, Serverless, Docker, Container Orchestration (i.e. Kubernetes).

• System load testing and baseline measurement.

• Familiar with log management and analytics tools: DataDog, Open Telemetry, Jaeger, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk

What’s in it for You

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in 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

• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family

• 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

• Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups

• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply.  However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

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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