Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Job Description

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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. 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.

LoopNet, the most popular place to find a space, is the #1 global commercial real estate marketplace. With more than 12 million global unique monthly visitors, LoopNet provides brokers, buyers and sellers with what they need to meet and make deals. LoopNet has established itself as the most effective and far-reaching digital marketplace for commercial real estate owners and brokers. We are not done yet! We continue to focus on driving expansion by increasing market share in the US and abroad, continuously innovating and enhancing the product and growing a powerhouse global team to reach our goals. Learn more about LoopNet.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for LoopNet 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. We have a flat hierarchy, and we spend much of our time writing code. We love agile, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.

Our effectiveness will be measured as a function of mean time to recover (MTTR) and mean time to failure (MTTF). In other words, we must have our services up and running again as quickly as possible, and we must avoid any subsequent failure for as long as possible.

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 programming languages, such as C#, Python, Golang, Java
• 3 or more years of experience developing a high-performance web-based system.
• Ability to debug, profile, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
• 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), B