Senior Software Development Engineer

🕒 August 7

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $164.4k - $262.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Zillow

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2006

🏠 Real Estate

🛍️ eCommerce

👥 B2C

💰 $4.1M Post-IPO Equity on 2012-12

Real Estate • eCommerce • B2C

Zillow is a leading real estate and property rental marketplace that provides comprehensive information on homes, apartments, and properties for sale or rent. It offers users tools to search for properties, calculate mortgage rates, and connect with real estate agents. The platform also features innovative algorithms that provide Zestimates, which are estimated market values of homes. Zillow is a go-to resource for individuals looking to buy, sell, or rent properties, as well as for agents and brokers who want to reach a wider audience.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and own backend services and APIs for self-service cloud capabilities • Expose account provisioning, networking, IAM, and policy as clean software interfaces • Turn recurring cloud work and manual runbooks into safe-by-default APIs, controls, and automation • Understand internal Zillow teams' use cases and shape platform interfaces and paved paths • Use feedback and usage data to drive the platform roadmap • Design for observability, SLOs, and self-healing • Participate in on-call for shipped services and lead follow-up work to eliminate recurring problems • Use modern AI-assisted and agentic tooling to accelerate design, implementation, and operations • Influence Platform Engineering's approach to public cloud enablement and roadmap decisions • Build foundational capabilities into a cohesive self-service platform for Zillow engineers

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend or platform services in production • Solid system design skills for distributed systems and API-based platforms • Production experience in Golang or Python (preferred), or another modern language • Solid testing, code review, and debugging habits • Strong experience with at least one public cloud provider, preferably AWS • Knowledge of VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers, security groups, IAM, compute, and storage • Experience with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform • Working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals, including IAM, network segmentation, encryption, and policy enforcement in multi-account environments • Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, such as GitLab Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Argo • Experience with internal platforms or developer tooling is nice to have • Experience treating an internal platform as a product is nice to have • Familiarity with service-to-service networking, service mesh, workload identity, or rate limiting is nice to have • Strong Linux systems and networking fundamentals is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location • Remote work from a physical location of choice • Flexible work from wherever employees are most productive • Equal employment opportunity and accommodation support