Senior Software Development Engineer-1

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.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

Incentive compensation; 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