Agentic AI, Senior Software Development Engineer

Zillow

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Zillow Group is a leading real estate and rental marketplace providing consumers with data, tools, and services to find, buy, sell, rent, and finance homes, and connecting buyers with agents and lenders. Industry: Real Estate Technology & Marketplace

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TL;DR · Agentic AI, Senior Software Development Engineer

The Agentic AI, Senior Software Development Engineer joins the Agentic Evals team to help build reliable, scalable systems for real estate AI assistants. You will design and scale evaluation frameworks, tracing systems, and observability tools to measure the quality and trustworthiness of production AI agents. Your daily work involves building platform infrastructure for domain teams, integrating new evaluation capabilities with applied scientists, and managing cost, latency, and performance optimizations. You must possess backend engineering expertise, experience with ML Evals and observability frameworks like Databricks MLflow, LangSmith, or Braintrust, and familiarity with orchestration tools such as LangChain or LangGraph. This role solves the technical challenge of measuring AI behavior and identifying failure modes within complex agentic systems to ensure reliable, measurable, and responsible AI experiences.

What does a Software Development Engineer earn?

Median $169050 from 229 postings across 18 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and scale evaluation frameworks for agentic AI experiences.
  • Build tracing, observability, and quality measurement systems for production AI agents.
  • Create platform infrastructure that enables domain teams to build on the Evals platform.
  • Integrate new AI evaluation capabilities into production systems with applied scientists and ML engineers.
  • Manage scaling, reliability, performance optimization, incident response, and cost management for the evaluation layer.
  • Translate emerging agentic AI paradigms and LLM tooling into practical platform innovations.
  • Evolve methods for measuring AI quality, reliability, trustworthiness, and product impact.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of backend engineering experience designing, shipping, and operating scalable production ML services.
  • Experience building platform infrastructure or developer-facing services consumed by multiple teams.
  • Hands-on experience with ML Evals and Observability frameworks (Databricks MLflow, LangSmith, Braintrust, Promptfoo, or similar preferred).
  • Experience evaluating third-party AI platforms and making build vs. buy decisions for platform infrastructure.
  • Fluency working across applied science, ML, product, design, and engineering disciplines.
  • Comfort with LLMs, agentic systems, and evaluation frameworks, including orchestration tools like LangChain, LangGraph, or MCP.
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience (preferred).
  • Experience designing and operating evaluation pipelines including offline batch evals, online scoring, and cost/latency/signal tradeoffs (preferred).

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