Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Self-Service Infra (Remote)

Archer; United States; Remote; USD 156,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Job summary

Zillow seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer for Public Cloud Foundations (PCF) to design and build services that abstract cloud complexity. You will own APIs and runtimes from design to operation, treating the platform as a product and working with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, self-service cloud capabilities.

You will shape interfaces for account provisioning, networking, IAM, and policy, driving automation and observability while reducing toil across Zillow engineers.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend or platform services.
• Strong design skills for distributed systems and API-based platforms.
• Production experience in Golang or Python and solid testing habits.
• Experience with at least one public cloud (AWS) and core primitives.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) as reusable, tested software.
• Cloud security fundamentals knowledge for multi-account environments.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab/GitHub/Jenkins/Argo).
• A bias toward eliminating toil by building self-service platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own backend services and APIs that enable self-service cloud capabilities.
• Turn recurring work into products and automate safe, scalable processes.
• Treat Zillow platform teams as customers and shape interfaces accordingly.
• Own reliability with observability, SLOs, and on-call responsibilities.
• Use AI-assisted tooling to accelerate design, implementation, and operations.
• Influence Platform Engineering to adopt a product mindset for cloud enablement.

Skills

Senior engineer

Distributed systems

Go / Python

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

Zillow seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer for Public Cloud Foundations (PCF) to design and build services that abstract cloud complexity. You will own APIs and runtimes from design to operation, treating the platform as a product and working with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, self-service cloud capabilities.

You will shape interfaces for account provisioning, networking, IAM, and policy, driving automation and observability while reducing toil across Zillow engineers.