Senior Software Development Engineer

🕒 August 7

🏄 California, Colorado, +15 more states – Remote

🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🦌 Connecticut – Remote 🌺 Hawaii – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🦞 Maine – Remote 🎰 Nevada – Remote 🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🏈 Ohio – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote ❄️ Minnesota – Remote ⚓ Rhode Island – Remote 🍁 Vermont – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $160.9k - $257.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Zillow

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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 including account provisioning, networking, IAM, and policy • Turn recurring cloud work and manual runbooks into safe-by-default APIs, controls, and automation • Treat Zillow teams as platform customers by understanding use cases, shaping interfaces and paved paths, and using feedback and usage data to drive the roadmap • Own platform reliability through observability, SLOs, self-healing, on-call support, and follow-up work that eliminates classes of problems • Use modern AI-assisted and agentic tooling to accelerate design, implementation, and operations while maintaining quality and safety • Influence Platform Engineering’s approach to public cloud enablement and contribute to product-minded design and roadmap decisions • Build foundational capabilities into a cohesive self-service platform experienced as a product

🎯 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 • Deep knowledge of cloud primitives including VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers, security groups, IAM, compute, and storage • Experience with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, including reusable tested software, safety reviews, and drift management • 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 • Bias toward eliminating toil through software • Nice to have: experience with internal platforms or developer tooling • Nice to have: experience treating an internal platform as a product • Nice to have: familiarity with service-to-service networking, service mesh, workload identity, or rate limiting • Nice to have: strong Linux systems and networking fundamentals

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location • Flexible distributed work model (Cloud HQ) • Employees are empowered to grow • Equal employment opportunity and inclusive, innovative environment • Disability or special-needs accommodation available • Job alert email notifications