Remote: Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

ZINC Zillow, Inc.

Washington

Hybrid

USD 164,000 - 263,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Job summary

Zillow is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for Public Cloud Foundations to build services and APIs that turn public cloud complexity into self-service products. You will design, implement, and operate backend systems from design to production, owning reliability, observability, and automation.

You will interact with multiple internal teams, advocate for best practices, and help translate cloud capabilities into scalable products.

Qualifications

6+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend or platform services.
Strong design skills for distributed systems with focus on simplicity, resiliency and observability.
Production experience in Golang or Python with solid testing and debugging habits.
Experience with at least one public cloud provider (AWS preferred) and its core primitives.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) as reusable, tested software.
Knowledge of cloud security fundamentals and IAM in multi-account environments.
Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for infra and backend services.
Bias toward eliminating toil by building self-service platforms.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and own backend services and APIs that make cloud capabilities self-service.
Turn recurring cloud work into product features and encoded automation.
Design for observability, SLOs, and self-healing.
Ensure reliability and on-call readiness, leading follow-up work.
Influence platform engineering with a product mindset and roadmap input.