Senior Software Development Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and manage backend services and APIs that facilitate self-service cloud capabilities.

• Develop software interfaces for account provisioning, networking, identity and access management (IAM), and policy.

• Transform repetitive cloud tasks and manual runbooks into APIs, controls, and automation that prioritize safety by default.

• Comprehend the use cases of internal Zillow engineering teams and refine platform interfaces and pathways.

• Leverage feedback and usage metrics to inform the platform roadmap.

• Design with a focus on observability, service level objectives (SLOs), and self-healing mechanisms.

• Engage in on-call duties for deployed production services.

• Lead initiatives that eradicate classes of reliability issues.

• Utilize AI-assisted and autonomous tools to enhance design, implementation, and operational efficiency.

• Shape the strategy and roadmap for Platform Engineering’s public cloud enablement.

• Build foundational capabilities into a unified self-service platform.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 6 years of professional experience in software engineering focused on building and operating backend or platform services in a production environment.

• Strong system design competencies for distributed systems and API-centric platforms.

• Practical experience in Golang or Python (preferred), or another contemporary programming language.

• Consistent habits in testing, code review, and debugging.

• Extensive experience with at least one public cloud provider, ideally AWS.

• Familiarity with AWS components, including VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers, security groups, IAM, compute, and storage.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.

• Proficient in reviewing infrastructure changes for security and managing configuration drift.

• Understanding of cloud security principles, including IAM, network segmentation, encryption, and policy enforcement across multi-account setups.

• Direct experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Argo.

• Experience in building or contributing to internal platforms or developer tools (preferred).

• Experience treating an internal platform as a product (preferred).

• Familiarity with service-to-service networking, service mesh, workload identity, or rate limiting in cloud settings (preferred).

• Strong foundation in Linux systems and networking (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity awards based on experience, performance, and location.

• Option for remote work from a location of the employee’s choosing.

• Flexible distributed work arrangement through Cloud HQ.

• Accommodation support for disabilities or special needs.