Senior Software Development Engineer-1

Overview

Senior Software Development Engineer-1 for Zillow’s founding India Delivery Engineering team, designing, building, and operating the systems that run software delivery.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and operate CI/CD execution, build, and runner infrastructure across Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, and cloud environments.
• Improve developer productivity by reducing CI feedback time, queue delays, flaky infrastructure failures, and manual toil.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Lead technical design for new platform capabilities balancing reliability, scalability, security, and speed.
• Raise operability with observability, alerting, SLOs, incident response, runbooks, and post-incident follow-through.
• Apply AI to engineering workflows like failure analysis, anomaly detection, agentic migration, code review, and rollout guidance.

What you'll need

• 6+ years building and operating production software systems focused on backend, platform, infrastructure, CI/CD, SRE, or developer productivity.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Java, Go, or similar with software design fundamentals and test discipline.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and optimizing compute infrastructure for build/test/deploy workloads.
• Experience operating services in AWS or another cloud using containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code such as Terraform.
• Comfort with Linux and/or macOS server administration and either Android or iOS build ecosystems (or willingness to ramp quickly).
• Reliability-first mindset covering observability, incident response, runbooks, SLOs, capacity, and production debugging.

Details

• Work classified as an Office position with regular work at the Zillow India office for approximately 80 to 100% of time each month.
• Role requires employees to live within a reasonable commuting distance of the office.
• Incentive compensation eligibility is mentioned; actual amounts vary by experience, performance, and location.