Principal Software Development Engineer, Backend

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $181.8k - $305.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

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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

• Support five engineering teams and partners in Product and Data Science on technical and strategic matters • Serve as primary technical steward of the Post-Connect backend domain • Define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture for backend platforms and services • Lead design and implementation of high-throughput, low-latency APIs, data and event pipelines, and platform capabilities • Solve complex technical problems and make high-impact design decisions • Prototype tools, patterns, and processes to de-risk ambiguous initiatives • Partner with product, data, and machine learning leaders to translate business goals into technical roadmaps • Mentor and coach senior engineers and tech leads • Influence platform and data governance, security, and compliance practices • Drive adoption of modern backend technologies, tooling, and workflows • Improve reliability, performance, testing, incident response, operational excellence, developer experience, delivery speed, and quality

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and operating back-end or distributed systems in production environments • Experience leading large-scale, highly available, and high-volume services or platforms, ideally in AWS, GCP, or Azure • Experience providing technical leadership across teams or domains, including setting architectural direction, influencing roadmaps, and driving complex initiatives from concept to production • Experience with scalable, secure, observable, and cost-efficient cloud-native systems • Experience with high-throughput, low-latency APIs, data and event pipelines, and platform capabilities • Experience with platform and data governance, security, and compliance practices

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work from a physical location of choice • Equity awards • Flexible work location through Cloud HQ • Inclusive, innovative, and engaging culture • Opportunities to grow professionally