Hiring: Senior Software Development Engineer Company: Zillow Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 10:17:20 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, CI/CD, Encryption, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Go, IAM, Jenkins, Linux, Python, Service Mesh, Systems Design, Terraform, VPC About the job Experience: •6+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend or platform services in production. Required Skills: •As a Senior Software Development Engineer on Public Cloud Foundations, you will build the services and APIs that abstract away the complexity of the public cloud, and own them as products from design through operation. •Design, build, and own backend services and APIs that make cloud capabilities self-service: account provisioning, networking, IAM, and policy exposed as clean software interfaces rather than tickets or manual processes. •Turn recurring cloud work into products. Take patterns that today depend on human judgment or hand-run runbooks and encode them into APIs, controls, and automation that are safe by default. •Treat teams across Zillow as the customers of your platform: understand their use cases, shape the interfaces and paved paths they build on, and let their feedback and usage data drive your roadmap. •Own the reliability of what you build. Design for observability, SLOs, and self-healing so the platform runs itself. Like any team that owns services in production, you'll be on call for what you ship, and you'll lead the follow-up work that removes whole classes of problems rather than patching individual incidents. •Use modern AI-assisted and agentic tooling to accelerate design, implementation, and operations while keeping quality and safety high. •Influence how Platform Engineering approaches public cloud enablement, bringing a product mindset to design discussions and roadmap decisions. •You'll help take a set of foundational capabilities and turn them into a cohesive, self-service platform that Zillow engineers experience as a product, not a queue. Qualifications: •You're a senior engineer who wants to build platforms, not just run them. You like taking messy, manual infrastructure work and turning it into clean software that other engineers build on, and you care about the developer experience of what you ship. •Solid system design skills for distributed systems and API-based platforms, with a practical approach to simplicity, resiliency, and observability. •Production experience in Golang or Python (preferred), or another modern language, with solid testing, code review, and debugging habits. •Strong experience with at least one public cloud provider (preferably AWS) and its core primitives such as VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers, security groups, IAM, compute, and storage, deep enough to abstract them behind clean interfaces. •Solid functional working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals, e.g., IAM, network segmentation, encryption, and policy enforcement in multi-account environments. •Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo) for infrastructure and/or backend services. •A bias toward eliminating toil in software: when you see repeated manual work, your instinct is to build the system that makes it unnecessary. •Operational familiarity with service-to-service networking, service mesh, workload identity, or rate limiting in cloud environments. •Strong Linux systems and networking fundamentals. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!