Senior Big Data Platform Engineer - Remote & AI-Driven

Archer; United States; Remote; USD 164,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

Zillow is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer, Big Data, to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and infrastructure powering analytics and AI-driven capabilities at scale.

You will collaborate across product, analytics, data science, and platform teams to translate requirements into robust, production-grade data solutions and APIs, while advancing data quality and reliability across the data lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field; 8+ years in software engineering with data-intensive or distributed systems.
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting production data pipelines and platforms using modern big data, streaming, and cloud-native tech.
• Hands-on experience building agentic solutions or skills with major AI tools and internal platform tools; Databricks is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Architect and optimize scalable, secure, and observable data pipelines and services for large data sets to support analytics, ML, and product use cases.
• Design and optimize data models, storage patterns, and processing frameworks for high-volume real-time and batch workloads.
• Lead design and code reviews; mentor teammates on data quality, resiliency, and operational excellence.

Skills

Software engineering

Data pipelines

AI tools experience

Cloud/big data technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Zillow is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer, Big Data, to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and infrastructure powering analytics and AI-driven capabilities at scale.

You will collaborate across product, analytics, data science, and platform teams to translate requirements into robust, production-grade data solutions and APIs, while advancing data quality and reliability across the data lifecycle.