Senior Software Development Engineer-1

About the team
The Developer Experience (DevEx) Delivery Engineering team builds and operates Zillows software delivery platform. This is the paved road from commit to production that every Zillow Group engineer relies on to build test deploy and ship. The platform supports org-wide delivery infrastructure at meaningful scale: CI/CD runners GitLab Artifactory Progressive Delivery mobile build and release and legacy migration programs. We are shifting from hands-on infrastructure operations toward secure compliant AI-first paved paths that improve reliability release safety and developer productivity.
We are standing up a new India-based team to expand capacity enable follow-the-sun coverage and take first-class ownership of high-impact platform initiatives. As one of the founding members youll help shape a brand-new engineering site while working on infrastructure that multiplies the productivity of the entire engineering organization.

What the team works on
- GitLab (including GitLab Dedicated and Duo): operate the central source-control and CI/CD platform and enable secure AI-assisted SDLC workflows.
- CI/CD runners: modernize Linux macOS iOS and Android runner fleets improving isolation queueing and cost attribution.
- Progressive Delivery: scale canary health-gated rollback-aware deployment patterns.
- Artifactory and supply chain: operate a Tier-0 artifact platform and improve upgrade backup retention and lifecycle practices.
- Migration and modernization: retire legacy CI/CD (Concrete) using dashboards partner engagement and agentic migration.
- Mobile build/release and Mobile DevOps: sustain a high release cadence while modernizing build tooling.

Zillow Group is a strategic mission-driven organization focused on delivering exceptional experiences and measurable outcomes. Our work spans cross-functional partnership scalable programs and operational excellence in support of Zillows mission. We bring deep experience working across diverse teams in a dynamic high-growth environment balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution to drive meaningful business impact. We are seeking an experienced professional to support our workforce expansion in India.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the founding India Delivery Engineering team youll 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 youll help set standards and shape how a brand-new engineering site works.

What youll 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.

This role has been categorized as an Office position. Office employees regularly work at the Zillow India office for approximately 80 to 100 percent of their time each month. Employees must live within a reasonable commuting distance of the office. Zillow has not defined a reasonable distance and expects employees will use judgment in determining this for themselves and understand the implications re: time commitment and cost of daily commute.

In addition to a competitive base pay employees in this role are eligible for incentive compensation subject to applicable laws and relevant Zillow policies. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience performance and location.

What youll 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 USIndia 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 were reimagining how people movethrough 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 youre working in tech operations or shared services youll 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 industryand your careerforward 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.