Senior Engineer - EDGE
About REA Group:
In 1995, in a garage in Melbourne, Australia, REA Group was born from a simple question: “Can we change the way the world experiences property”
Could we Yes. Are we done Never.
Fast forward 30 years, REA Group is a market leader in online real estate in three continents and continuing to grow rapidly across the globe. The secret to our growth is staying true to that ‘day one’ mindset; the hunger to innovate, the ambition to change the world, and the curiosity to reimagine the future.
Our new Tech Center in Cyber City is dedicated to accelerating REA Group’s global technology delivery through relentless innovation. We’re looking for the best technologists, inventors and leaders in India to join us on this exciting new journey.
If you’re excited by the prospect of creating something magical from scratch, then read on.
What the role is all about:
We’re seeking a Senior Engineer - EDGE Platform who will play a pivotal role in shaping and scaling REA’s edge security and content delivery capabilities. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, cloud, networking and security, with a strong focus on building resilient, reusable and well-governed edge platform capabilities for teams across REA.
You’ll help define and evolve our EDGE platform strategy across CDN, WAF, bot management, DNS and traffic management, while applying platform thinking to create paved-road solutions that are secure, scalable and simple for product and engineering teams to adopt. You’ll combine deep technical expertise with operational discipline, leveraging automation, observability and incident response practices to improve reliability and customer outcomes.
This is your chance to work on impactful projects that directly influence availability, performance and security for customer-facing experiences at scale. You’ll work with modern tooling and collaborate with engineers across infrastructure, security and product teams in a large, complex technology environment.
While no two days are likely to be the same, your typical responsibilities will include:
Design, implement and continuously improve edge platform capabilities across CDN, WAF and DDoS protection using Akamai.
Build and operate bot management capabilities using Kasada to improve protection against automated abuse while preserving customer experience.
Create reusable infrastructure and platform patterns using Terraform, with a strong platform thinking mindset that enables self-service, consistency and guardrails for engineering teams.
Work across AWS, networking, CDN, DNS and traffic management domains to deliver secure, resilient and high-performing solutions.
Partner with product, platform, security and development teams to embed edge security and reliability considerations early in the design process.
Investigate and troubleshoot complex production issues across edge, network and cloud layers, driving remediation and long-term prevention.
Strengthen incident response practices through PagerDuty, operational readiness, runbooks, on-call improvements and service ownership.
Take accountability for delivery, technical quality and operational outcomes, with clear ownership of team and platform OKRs.
Who we’re looking for:
4+ years of experience in platform, network or edge engineering roles, with strong hands-on delivery in production environments.
Strong experience with CDN and edge technologies, ideally including Akamai for CDN, WAF and DDoS protection.
Experience with bot management platforms, ideally Kasada or similar tooling used to mitigate automated abuse.
Solid experience with AWS and a good understanding of core cloud architecture patterns, networking, DNS, TLS, traffic routing and internet-facing systems.
Strong proficiency in Terraform and infrastructure as code, with the ability to design reusable modules, standards and platform abstractions.
Experience writing production-quality automation and tooling in Python and/or Go.
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across distributed systems using logs, metrics, tracing and other observability tools.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and influence technical direction.
Bonus Points for:
Experience designing internal platform capabilities that improve developer experience and adoption through self-service patterns.
Exposure to edge security policy management, rate limiting, API protection or zero trust patterns.
Experience in high-scale internet platforms where performance, availability and abuse prevention are critical.
Familiarity with compliance, governance or risk controls in cloud and edge environments.
What we offer:
A hybrid and flexible approach to working.
Transport options to help you get to and from work, including home pick-up and drop-off.
Meals provided on site in our office.
Flexible leave options including parental leave, family care leave and celebration leave.
Insurances for you and your immediate family members.
Programs to support mental, emotional, financial and physical health & wellbeing.
Continuous learning and development opportunities to further your technical expertise.
The values we live by:
- Our values are at the core of how we operate, treat each other, and make decisions. We believe that how we work is equally important as what we do to achieve our goals. This commitment is at the heart of everything we do, from the way we interact with colleagues to the way we serve our customers and communities.
Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe teams with diverse ideas and experiences are more creative, more effective and fuel disruptive thinking - be it cultural and ethnic backgrounds, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other identity or lived experience. We know diverse teams are critical to maintaining our success and driving new business opportunities. If you've got the skills, dedication and enthusiasm to learn but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch.
