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Senior Software Development Engineer, Backend

Senior Software Development Engineer, Backend

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Zillow GroupCloud platform
U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.Full-TimeSenior
SalaryUSD 156200 - 262600 / year; In California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $164,400.00 - $262,600.00 annually. In Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia the standard base pay range for this role is $156,200.00 - $249,400.00 annually. In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.
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Experience
6+ years of professional software engineering experience
Required Skills
AWSPythonGoCI/CDLinuxTerraformGitHub ActionsDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • Have 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend or platform services in production.
  • Bring system design skills for distributed systems and API-based platforms, with practical approaches to simplicity, resiliency, and observability.
  • Have production experience in Golang or Python, preferably, or another modern language.
  • Apply solid testing, code review, and debugging habits.
  • Have strong experience with at least one public cloud provider, preferably AWS, and core cloud primitives such as VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers, security groups, IAM, compute, and storage.
  • Have infrastructure-as-code experience such as Terraform, including reusable, tested code, safety reviews, and drift management.
  • Understand cloud security fundamentals, including IAM, network segmentation, encryption, and policy enforcement in multi-account environments.
  • Have hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, such as GitLab Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Argo.
  • Be inclined to eliminate recurring manual work through software.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and own backend services and APIs for self-service cloud account provisioning, networking, IAM, and policy.
  • Turn recurring manual cloud work and runbooks into safe APIs, controls, and automation.
  • Work with internal teams to understand use cases and shape platform interfaces and paved paths.
  • Use feedback and usage data to guide the platform roadmap.
  • Design for observability, SLOs, reliability, and self-healing in production.
  • Participate in on-call and lead follow-up work that addresses recurring incident causes.
  • Use AI-assisted and agentic tooling to accelerate design, implementation, and operations while maintaining quality and safety.
  • Influence public-cloud enablement design discussions and roadmap decisions.
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USD 156200 - 262600 / year; In California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $164,400.00 - $262,600.00 annually. In Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia the standard base pay range for this role is $156,200.00 - $249,400.00 annually. In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.
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