Zillow

Senior Software Development Engineer

Zillow
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Remote, Mexico or Mexico City, MexicoSenior

Responsibilities

  • Architect, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, highly available backend services and APIs.
  • Design backend solutions for distributed systems running in Kubernetes-based and cloud environments.
  • Collaborate with product, front-end, data, and machine learning teams on technical designs and integrations.
  • Implement automated testing, code review, CI/CD, instrumentation, and operational runbooks.
  • Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and improve system resilience.
  • Build internal tools, platform services, automation frameworks, and developer self-service tooling.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering skills designing, building, testing, and maintaining production-quality code.
  • Proficiency in Go and/or Python.
  • Strong production experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized application platforms, Terraform, Helm, and Docker.
  • Strong Linux systems knowledge, including troubleshooting, scripting, performance analysis, and systems debugging.
  • Experience with internal tools, platform services, automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
  • Understanding of distributed systems, networking, security, and observability.
  • Ability to troubleshoot application, runtime, container, network, and cloud-service issues.
  • Preferred experience with internal developer platforms, service mesh, secrets management, policy enforcement, multi-cluster Kubernetes, and platform or site reliability engineering.
  • Preferred knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, AWS Identity and Access Management, and secure infrastructure design.
  • Experience leading technical initiatives, mentoring peers, or influencing engineering standards is preferred.

Benefits

  • Teleworker position with no permanent corporate office workplace.
  • Employees may live anywhere in Mexico and should be available to travel to Mexico City for occasional office events.
  • Eligible for competitive base salary, benefits, and equity awards based on experience, performance, and location.

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About Zillow

5,001-10,000 employees

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/

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