Senior Software Development Engineer

Zillow

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Work type
Remote
Location
United States
Salary
$164,400–$262,600 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
3 days ago
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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $142,400–$177,250 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $214k versus about $160k 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 54 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $164,400–$262,600 across 40 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Development Engineer

The Senior Software Development Engineer joins the Public Cloud Foundations team within Platform Engineering to build internal cloud platforms. You will design, build, and own backend services and APIs that abstract public cloud complexity into self-service products, including account provisioning, networking, IAM, and policy. Your daily work involves turning manual infrastructure tasks into automated software, designing for observability and self-healing, and treating internal engineering teams as customers. You will utilize Golang, Python, AWS, and Terraform to create paved paths and managed products like container base images. The role solves the problem of operational surface area by replacing manual runbooks with engineered software interfaces. You must possess strong system design skills for distributed systems, experience with CI/CD pipelines, and a product mindset to drive platform roadmap decisions.

What does a Software Development Engineer earn?

Median $169050 from 240 postings across 19 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and own backend services and APIs that provide self-service cloud capabilities like account provisioning and networking.
  • Convert recurring manual cloud tasks and runbooks into automated, safe-by-default software products and APIs.
  • Shape platform interfaces and paved paths based on customer use cases and usage data.
  • Design systems for high reliability, including observability, SLOs, and self-healing capabilities.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead follow-up work to eliminate entire classes of production problems.
  • Utilize AI-assisted and agentic tooling to accelerate the design, implementation, and operation of platform services.
  • Influence platform engineering roadmap decisions by applying a product mindset to public cloud enablement.

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 storage.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, structured as reusable, tested software.
  • Working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals including IAM, network segmentation, and policy enforcement.
  • Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and/or backend services.
  • Experience building internal platforms or developer tooling (preferred).

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