Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering, Follow Up Boss

Zillow

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Remote (US) Posted 45 days ago $206,700$330,300 / year

At a glance

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TL;DR

As a Senior Engineering Manager for Follow Up Boss (FUB) Infrastructure at Zillow Group, you will lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for maintaining and enhancing the reliability, scalability, and security of FUB’s core platform. Your daily tasks include driving strategic initiatives that improve developer experience, modernize infrastructure, and align with central platform teams to adopt shared capabilities. Key technologies involve AWS, Terraform/Ansible, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools. You will manage high-availability SaaS products, scale production systems in a cloud environment, and ensure compliance with security standards while fostering an inclusive team culture that encourages innovation and the adoption of AI-driven solutions for operational efficiency.

Skills

AWS Terraform GitLab Kubernetes CI/CD PostgreSQL RDS Aurora Redis Docker Prometheus Grafana Ansible Python JavaScript SQL DevOps SRE ZGCP AI

What you'll do

  • Own execution for the FUB infra & security roadmap with clear milestones.
  • Ensure team hits commitments through proactive risk management and communication.
  • Lead reliability improvements, including database scaling and performance optimization.
  • Drive modernization of prioritized workloads while balancing devex wins and risks.
  • Improve developer environments and onboarding to ensure quick productivity for new engineers.

What we're looking for

  • Proven track record leading SRE or infrastructure teams for high-availability SaaS products.
  • Experience scaling production systems and databases in AWS with meaningful improvements to reliability, performance, and cost.
  • Demonstrated ability to shift a team from reactive to proactive roadmap-driven execution.
  • Strong background in developer experience and CI/CD tools like Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Kubernetes.
  • Experience partnering with security, database, networking teams in multi-org environments.
  • Demonstrated people leadership: managing senior engineers, building inclusive culture, developing autonomous leaders.
  • Comfortable experimenting with AI tools in engineering workflows and operationalizing them.

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $192k
This role $268k
$118k most similar roles pay here $353k

This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $160,931–$223,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $268k versus about $192k for comparable roles.

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About Zillow

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

Zillow currently has 35 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $160,900–$257,100 across 35 roles with salary data.

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