Director of Site Reliability Engineering - CoStar Real Estate Manager
Company Overview
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.
CoStar Real Estate Manager is the leading Software as a Service Provider, (SaaS), to the Real Estate Industry. Please visit our website at: https://costarmanager.com/ to learn more about our product and growing company.
Job Description
CoStar Real Estate Manager is searching for a driven and knowledgeable director for our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. This role will lead a multicultural, cooperative team of engineers who contribute to the reliability of the CoStar Real Estate Manager application suite. You would be responsible for leading the technical strategy and vision for our underpinning infrastructure, alerting & monitoring, infrastructure provisioning, networking, and development tooling in collaboration with other engineering teams and leadership. Foster a culture of cooperation and innovation that will support the development of our engineers, be an effective people manager who can inspire and motivate others.
This position is located in Atlanta, GA and offers a schedule of 3 days onsite, 2 days remote.
Responsibilities
- Direct an SRE team of bright and driven full-stack engineers from IT Ops and DevOps in the development, administration, and upkeep of reliable infrastructure and easy-to-use tools.
- Create a culture of honesty, openness, and inclusivity in everything we do.
- Lead the technology strategy for our infrastructure and tooling.
- Establish objectives and delivery schedules in close collaboration with the product and process teams, balancing tech debt and outside requests.
- Work with the SRE team to provide high-quality infrastructure that is easy to maintain and deploys reliably.
- Own the Observability Platform and best practices so that future teams can track and support it.
- Mentor and guide SRE engineers to realize their full potential by providing honest criticism and setting clear goals.
- Assist in finding and hiring new talent who will improve us and add a variety of perspectives.
Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college.
- 10+ years’ experience leading infrastructure teams through transformation programs.
- Experience with software configuration management and release engineering:
- Windows O/S
- Linux (Ubuntu)
- Kubernetes On-Prem
- Azure DevOps
- Experience managing database administrators (SQL Server, AWS RDS).
- Knowledge of agile methodologies.
- Knowledge of controlling infrastructure and associated equipment.
- Experience working with cloud service platforms in a hybrid cloud configuration (on-prem & AWS) and knowledge of best practices and methods for resolving issues in those settings.
- Working knowledge of monitoring systems – LogicMonitor a plus.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to weigh several choices and suggest a course of action.
- Experience guiding a team and setting both group- and person-specific goals.
- Effective communication and is comfortable interacting with people of various backgrounds, skill levels, and experiences.
- Passion for fostering the growth and development of SRE Engineers.
- Continuously enhance our infrastructure and supporting procedures while simultaneously identifying cost reductions.
- Establish baseline requirements and monitoring capabilities in collaboration with application teams.
- Be proactive in testing dependability and resilience across all of our application platforms.
- Provide seamless developer experiences in close collaboration with other engineering teams.
- Contribute to the determination of agreements and objectives for the dependability of services.
- Collaborate with engineering groups to establish best practices and standards for incident response and management.
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.
CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
