Senior Software Development Engineer, Backend

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and manage backend services and APIs that facilitate self-service cloud functionalities.

• Provide account provisioning, networking, IAM, and policy through well-defined software interfaces.

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

• Grasp the use cases of Zillow engineers and refine platform interfaces and pathways.

• Leverage feedback and usage metrics to inform the platform's strategic direction.

• Focus on observability, service-level objectives (SLOs), and self-healing capabilities in design.

• Engage in on-call duties for production services.

• Drive follow-up efforts to resolve classes of operational issues.

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

• Impact Platform Engineering's strategy for public cloud enablement and roadmap formulation.

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

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Strong system design proficiency for distributed systems and API-driven platforms.

• Practical experience with Golang or Python (preferred), or another modern programming language.

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

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

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

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

• Basic understanding of cloud security principles, including IAM, network segmentation, encryption, and policy enforcement across multi-account settings.

• Practical 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 is a plus.

• Experience treating an internal platform as a product is an added advantage.

• Familiarity with service-to-service networking, service mesh, workload identity, or rate limiting is a plus.

• Strong foundational knowledge of Linux systems and networking is a bonus.

• U.S. employees are permitted to reside in any of the 50 states, with some limitations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity awards determined by factors such as experience, performance, and location.

• Opportunity for remote work from any physical location chosen by the employee.

• Flexibility to work from environments that maximize employee productivity.

• Support for accommodations related to disabilities or special needs.

• Commitment to equal employment opportunities and an inclusive workplace.