Senior Software Development Engineer

Zillow

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$164,400–$262,600 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
2 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $166k
This role $214k
$103k most similar roles pay here $280k

This role pays more than 87% of similar roles. Most pay $149,462–$183,025 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $214k versus about $166k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 36 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $164,400–$262,600 across 29 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Software Development Engineer

As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Public Cloud Foundations team, you will build and own backend services and APIs that abstract complex public cloud infrastructure into self-service products for other engineers. You will transform manual processes like account provisioning, networking, and IAM into automated software interfaces while ensuring reliability through observability and self-healing designs. The role involves developing a Terraform delivery platform, container base images, and policy capabilities as managed products rather than manual runbooks. To succeed, you must possess expertise in Golang or Python, experience with AWS primitives like VPCs and load balancers, and proficiency in infrastructure-as-code using Terraform. You will also utilize CI/CD pipelines and modern AI-assisted tooling to eliminate toil. This role solves the problem of managing large-scale cloud complexity by creating paved paths for internal developers.

What does a Software Development Engineer earn?

Median $169050 from 210 postings across 17 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build backend services and APIs to provide self-service cloud capabilities like networking, IAM, and account provisioning.
  • Convert manual infrastructure runbooks into automated products and software interfaces that are safe by default.
  • Develop and maintain internal platforms using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) as reusable, tested software.
  • Manage the reliability of production services by designing for observability, SLOs, and self-healing capabilities.
  • Act as a product owner to gather user feedback and data to shape the platform roadmap and developer experience.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to resolve incidents and lead engineering efforts to eliminate recurring classes of problems.
  • Utilize AI-assisted and agentic tooling to accelerate the design, implementation, and operation of cloud infrastructure.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend or platform services in production.
  • Solid system design skills for distributed systems and API-based platforms with a focus on simplicity, resiliency, and observability.
  • Production experience in Golang or Python (preferred), or another modern language with solid testing and debugging habits.
  • Strong experience with at least one public cloud provider (preferably AWS) and its core primitives like VPCs, IAM, and networking.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform structured as reusable, tested software.
  • Working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals including IAM, network segmentation, encryption, and policy enforcement.
  • Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and backend services.
  • Experience building internal platforms or developer tooling (preferred); familiarity with service mesh or Linux networking (preferred).

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