Zillow
Senior Software Development Engineer
$156K–$263K
Remote-USA · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend or platform services in production.
About the job
Build and operate self-service cloud platform services and APIs that turn manual infrastructure work into safe, reliable products for Zillow engineers.
What you'll do
- Design and own services and APIs for cloud account provisioning, networking, IAM, and policy.
- Automate recurring cloud work and operate services with observability, SLOs, and self-healing; participate in on-call and reliability follow-up.
- Shape platform interfaces and roadmap with internal customers, and use AI-assisted and agentic tools to accelerate engineering work safely.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend or platform services in production.
- System design skills for distributed systems and API-based platforms; production experience in Golang or Python, or another modern language.
- Strong experience with at least one public cloud provider and core cloud primitives; infrastructure-as-code experience such as Terraform.
- Working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals and hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Nice to have
- Golang or Python; AWS.
- Experience building internal platforms or developer tooling and treating an internal platform as a product.
Pay
USD $164,400.00 - $262,600.00 annually (base salary); USD $156,200.00 - $249,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Golang, Python, AWS, Terraform, GitLab Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo
AI focus
Use modern AI-assisted and agentic tooling to accelerate design, implementation, and operations while maintaining quality and safety.
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