4 days ago
Base Salary
$156k - $263k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own backend services and APIs for self-service cloud account provisioning, networking, IAM, and policy capabilities.
- Convert recurring manual cloud operations and runbooks into safe-by-default APIs, controls, and automation.
- Understand internal engineering customer needs, shape platform interfaces and paved paths, and use feedback and adoption data to guide the roadmap.
- Design for observability, SLOs, self-healing, and production reliability while participating in on-call and leading systemic incident follow-up.
- Influence Platform Engineering’s approach to public cloud enablement and apply a product mindset to platform design and roadmap decisions.
- Use AI-assisted and agentic tooling to accelerate design, implementation, and operations while maintaining quality and safety.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend or platform services in production.
- Strong distributed-systems and API-platform design skills with a practical approach to simplicity, resiliency, and observability.
- Production experience with Golang or Python preferred, or another modern programming language, along with solid testing, code review, and debugging practices.
- Strong experience with at least one public cloud provider, preferably AWS, including VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers, security groups, IAM, compute, and storage.
- Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, including reusable and tested implementations, safe change review, 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 by building software that removes repeated manual work.
- Preferred experience with internal platforms or developer tooling such as account vending, golden paths, or self-service provisioning.
- Preferred experience treating an internal platform as a product by defining interfaces, measuring adoption, and improving developer experience.
- Preferred familiarity with service-to-service networking, service mesh, workload identity, or rate limiting in cloud environments.
- Strong Linux systems and networking fundamentals are preferred.
Benefits
- Remote position with no permanent corporate office workplace; U.S. employees may work from any of the 50 states with limited exceptions.
- Eligible for equity awards based on experience, performance, and location.
- Equal opportunity workplace with accommodation support for applicants with disabilities or special needs.
About Zillow
Having a place to call your own changes everything. It’s where life happens, where stability grows and possibility begins. At Zillow, we’re transforming real estate so more people can take their next step with confidence and ease. We bring clarity to the process and progress to an industry ready for change, working alongside the people who make real estate work every day. With Cloud HQ, our distributed-first way of working, you can do meaningful work from wherever you work best. We’re always looking for smart, passionate people to help reimagine how people get home. Join us. https://www.zillow.com/careers/