Senior Software Development Engineer-1

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the founding India Delivery Engineering team, you'll design, build, and operate the software delivery systems Zillow engineers use every day. This is a hands-on platform role with meaningful ownership across CI/CD execution, build and runner infrastructure, GitLab/Artifactory integrations, Progressive Delivery, mobile build/release systems, and migration and modernization programs.

As one of the first engineers on the team, you'll help set standards and shape how a brand-new engineering site works.

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 operational toil.

Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes.

Lead technical design for new platform capabilities, making clear tradeoffs between reliability, scalability, security, and speed.

Raise the bar on operability with observability, alerting, SLOs, incident response, runbooks, and post-incident follow-through.

Partner with mobile, platform, security, compliance, and service teams on platform integration and migration needs.

Apply AI to engineering workflows such as failure analysis, anomaly detection, agentic migration, code review, and rollout guidance.

Mentor and uplevel other engineers, and help set standards for the growing team.

What you'll bring

6+ years building and operating production software systems, with a focus on backend, platform, infrastructure, CI/CD, SRE, or developer-productivity engineering.

Strong proficiency in Python, Java, Go, or similar, with solid 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 a strong willingness to ramp quickly.

Strong SDLC, architecture, automation, and operations mindset; familiarity with SaltStack, Ansible, Puppet, or comparable automation tooling is helpful.

A track record of owning ambiguous problems from discovery through production, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to define success.

A reliability-first mindset: observability, incident response, runbooks, SLOs, capacity, and production debugging.

Demonstrated ability to use AI deliberately in the SDLC while validating suggestions and retaining engineering ownership.

Excellent communication and collaboration; comfortable working async-first across US–India time zones.

Nice to have

Experience on platform or infrastructure teams supporting many internal customers and product surfaces.

Mobile build infrastructure experience (iOS or Android).

Large-scale migration, deprecation, or modernization programs.

Depth in GitLab, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Artifactory, Datadog, Splunk, Rootly, or similar ecosystems.

Prior experience in a founding team, new site, or distributed engineering organization.

Why join

Founding role: shape a new India engineering site and help set the technical and cultural bar from day one.

High leverage: work on the platform used by every Zillow engineer and every major product surface.

Modernization agenda: GitLab Dedicated, runner rearchitecture, Progressive Delivery, Artifactory modernization, and legacy retirement.

AI-first work: real production use cases across code review, migrations, incident analysis, and deployment safety.

Global collaboration: partner directly with US engineering leaders while building durable India ownership.

At Zillow, we’re reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through their careers.

As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., Zillow helps millions of customers navigate buying, selling, financing, and renting with greater ease and confidence. Our teams in India play a critical role in building and scaling the technology, products, and operations that power this experience.

Whether you’re working in tech, operations, or shared services, you’ll collaborate with global partners to solve meaningful problems and help more people make home a reality.

Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the U.S.. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2025, and included on the PEOPLE Companies That Care® 2025 list, reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.

No matter where you sit in the organization, your work will help drive innovation, support our customers, and move the industry—and your career—forward, together.

Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, maternity status, HIV status, or veteran status. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to candidates with disabilities, in accordance with applicable policies.