Zillow
Senior Software Development Engineer - Big Data
$156K–$263K
Remote-USA · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
About the job
Designs and operates scalable data pipelines, infrastructure, and agent platform tools that support Zillow’s analytics, machine learning, and AI-powered products.
What you'll do
- Architect and optimize secure, observable data pipelines, services, models, and processing frameworks for large-scale workloads.
- Lead technical reviews and guide engineers while partnering across teams to deliver production-grade data solutions and APIs.
- Build the company context layer and agentic platform tools, authentication, and APIs; improve testing, monitoring, and reliability.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience focused on building and operating data-intensive or distributed systems.
- Experience designing, implementing, and supporting production data pipelines and platforms using modern big data, streaming, and/or cloud-native technologies.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners to deliver scalable data solutions supporting business, analytics, and AI needs.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience building agentic solutions or skills with major AI tools and internal platform tools used by many teams; Databricks is a plus.
Pay
$164,400.00 - $262,600.00 USD annually (base salary); $156,200.00 - $249,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Databricks
AI focus
Build data platforms and products for machine learning and AI use cases, including the company context layer and agentic platform tools, authentication, and APIs.
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