$152,900 – $257,100
Listed on Zillow’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Build and own the internal cloud platform APIs that let Zillow engineers provision infrastructure and accounts themselves instead of relying on manual processes and tickets. This role suits senior engineers who want to turn operational toil into clean, product-grade software and care deeply about the developer experience of what they ship.
Our summary, not Zillow’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Argo CD
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- Linux
- Python
- Terraform
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What they ask for
Required
- 6+ years building and operating backend or platform services in production
- System design skills for distributed systems and API platforms
- Production experience in Golang, Python, or another modern language
- Deep experience with at least one public cloud provider, preferably AWS
- Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform as tested, reusable software
- Cloud security fundamentals including IAM, network segmentation, and encryption
- Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Bias toward automating manual work and eliminating toil
Nice to have
- Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, or account vending systems
- Experience treating an internal platform as a product with focus on adoption and developer experience
- Familiarity with service-to-service networking, service mesh, workload identity, or rate limiting
- Strong Linux systems and networking fundamentals