Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Zillow

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Remote (Remote-Wa, US) Posted 80 days ago $206,700–$330,300 / year
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TL;DR

As a Senior Engineering Manager for Zillow’s Guardians team, you will lead a high-impact engineering team of approximately eight engineers responsible for the reliability, evolution, and adoption of the Centralized Leads Platform (CLP), which handles critical consumer inquiries and matches them with real estate professionals. Your daily responsibilities include modernizing mission-critical systems, designing end-to-end lead journeys, shaping observability strategies, and collaborating across various teams to ensure cohesive long-term vision alignment. You will leverage your deep technical expertise in scalable backend design, operational excellence, and people leadership to drive continuous improvement in reliability, security, and efficiency of the platform, using tools like AWS, Kubernetes, and observability platforms such as Datadog or Splunk.

Skills

Kubernetes AWS Datadog Splunk CI/CD Python PostgreSQL Docker Terraform GraphQL REST JSON SQL Event-driven architectures Microservices Messaging queues RabbitMQ Redis Observability On-call practices Incident response Runbooks

What you'll do

  • Lead a team of 8 engineers responsible for the reliability and evolution of Zillow’s centralized leads platform.
  • Modernize mission-critical platforms by replacing legacy systems with reliable, observable workflows.
  • Design end-to-end lead journeys in partnership with product, operations, and analytics teams.
  • Shape and execute the observability strategy to provide fast, self-service insight into system health.
  • Improve operational excellence through on-call practices, incident response, and reducing engineer toil.
  • Set clear goals and development plans for each team member, fostering technical leadership growth.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineering teams
  • Proven ability to align technical system capabilities with business ambitions
  • Deep experience designing scalable, reliable backend or data systems
  • Strong track record in operational excellence and on-call rotations
  • Excellent communication skills for diverse audiences
  • Demonstrated success in building and developing engineering talent

Market check

Salary context

This $206,700–$330,300 range sits above 96% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$127,980–$225,100

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$148,455–$217,725

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

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 33 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $160,900–$257,100 across 33 roles with salary data.

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