Staff Software Engineer

Join News Corp to lead technical reliability for Realtor.com’s Organic Growth Engineering platform. In this onsite (Austin, TX) role, you will own the engineering direction behind organic search and organic social sharing and deeplinking systems at scale, setting the strategy for crawl, indexing, rendering, and share-link resolution. You will be an individual-contributor technical lead focused on how the platform performs in production, how incidents are handled, and how SLOs and alerting keep customer-facing experiences dependable.

What you’ll do

• Set the technical strategy for SEO at scale, including crawl budget, indexation, canonicalization, robots, sitemaps, and rendering across millions of pages, plus QA testing methodology and regression-testing standards.
• Set the technical strategy for organic social sharing and deeplinking, ensuring shared listing links resolve reliably through AppsFlyer link generation, attribution, and in-app versus web fallback, with standards modeled on crawl-path reliability.
• Lead SEO and deeplinking incident response across dependent systems such as edge and delivery, bot management, routing, rendering, content services, and attribution/MMP infrastructure.
• Own escalation and incident operations by running the war rooms and ensuring post-mortems close the loop into new alerts, gates, and runbooks.
• Define SLOs/SLIs and the on-call model for crawl/indexation health and deeplink resolution and attribution health, in partnership with the observability engineer.
• Maintain visibility into changes that impact organic-critical paths through a single reviewed view of what is shipping that touches SEO or the share/deeplink path, alongside Organic Growth PMs (including the Director, Organic Growth).
• Own performance analysis for logs, crawl budget, and deeplink outcomes by defining what to measure, including crawl waste and over-crawl patterns, index drift, resolution failure rate, attribution loss, and in-app versus web fallback rate.
• Raise the technical bar by setting engineering standards, leading design reviews, and mentoring engineers directly through the work.
• Partner closely with the Organic Growth product team, who own product roadmap, KPIs, and business accountability for SEO/AEO and organic social channels, while you own the platform-level “how.”

What you bring

• Experience with federated GraphQL and API gateway architectures, plus CDN, WAF, and bot-management layers.
• Familiarity with search engine indexing APIs and dynamic rendering or prerender approaches.
• Direct experience with AppsFlyer (or Branch/Adjust) SDK integration, OneLink/deferred deep linking, and attribution reconciliation.
• Experience defining SLOs and real-time alerting for a customer-facing platform.
• Prior experience standing up or re-platforming an SEO engineering function.
• Strong backend engineering with Python and JavaScript/TypeScript (Node), comfortable owning production services.
• Rendering fluency with React/Next.js and SEO implications of SSR/SSG/ISR/CSR, including debugging hydration and crawler-rendering issues.
• Data and analysis skills using SQL against a cloud data warehouse for log-file, crawl-budget, and deeplink performance analysis.
• CI/CD and automation experience building or owning regression gates and automated quality checks.
• Cross-team technical leadership as an IC: drive fixes and influence designs without positional authority, and act as a calm incident commander.
• AI-assisted engineering: work fluently with AI coding assistants on production code and know when outputs are wrong.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience, plus 8+ years of software engineering experience, including ownership of technical SEO or crawl/rendering infrastructure.
• Deeplinking/attribution infrastructure experience is a strong plus even without an SEO background.

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

How you’ll work

• This role is hybrid and based in the Austin, TX office. You will need to be within commutable distance.
• Employees work three or more days in the office for in-person collaboration.

Technologies: GraphQL, API gateway, CDN, WAF, bot-management, AppsFlyer, Branch, Adjust, OneLink, deferred deep linking, attribution reconciliation, SLOs, real-time alerting, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, React, Next.js, SSR, SSG, ISR, CSR, SQL, cloud data warehouse