Senior Software Infrastructure Engineer AI Tooling

Youll join the team behind the infrastructure and platform services that power thousands of Zillow applications and experiences. We build and operate scalable reliable and secure systems in a cloud-native microservices-based environment while creating tools and automation that help engineers move faster with confidence. Working closely with product and engineering partners across Zillow our team improves availability performance and developer productivity through thoughtful systems design and operational excellence.

The Senior Specialist Software Engineering Systems designs builds and operates scalable reliable and secure infrastructure and platform services that support thousands of Zillow applications and services. This role leads complex systems engineering initiatives automates infrastructure and deployment workflows and partners closely with product and engineering teams to improve availability performance and developer productivity across a cloud-native microservices-based environment.

You will get to

• Improve the Security resilience and compliance posture of infrastructure and systems by implementing controls performing reviews and collaborating with Security and compliance partners.

• Partner with software engineering teams to design operable services Guide adoption of platform capabilities and mentor engineers on systems engineering and operational excellence.

• Partner with software engineering Security and product teams to define non-functional requirements (availability scalability resiliency) and translate them into system designs.

• Monitor and optimize system performance capacity and cost implementing observability best practices and responding to complex production incidents to restore service quickly.

• Architect implement and Maintain cloud-based infrastructure and platform services that support large-scale distributed applications in a microservices environment.

• Lead the design and automation of CI/CD pipelines configuration management and infrastructure-as-code to improve deployment reliability speed and repeatability by leveraging AI Tools.

• Lead design and automation of CI/CD pipelines infrastructure-as-code and configuration management to improve reliability Security and deployment speed.

• Drive observability performance and capacity improvements by enhancing monitoring alerting logging and incident response practices across systems.

• Mentor engineers on systems design DevOps/SRE practices and operational excellence modeling effective incident and change management behaviors.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across the stack performing root cause analysis and driving preventative improvements.

• Architect implement and Maintain cloud-native infrastructure and platform services that support large-scale distributed applications.

This role has been categorized as a teleworker position. Teleworkers do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and instead work from a physical location of their choice which must be identified to the Company. Employees may live anywhere in Mexico with availability to travel to Mexico City as we recommend attendance at occasional office events.

In addition to a competitive base salary and benefits this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience performance and location.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Information Systems or a related field.

• 8 years of experience in systems engineering site reliability engineering DevOps or related software engineering roles supporting large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments.

• Experience designing implementing and operating cloud-based infrastructure (for example AWS GCP or Azure) container orchestration (for example Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code tools (for example Terraform or similar).

• Experience designing implementing and operating infrastructure and services using technologies such as Public cloud platforms containers orchestration CI/CD and observability tooling.

• 6 years of experience in software engineering site reliability engineering DevOps or systems engineering supporting highly available large-scale applications.

• Experience with at least one modern programming or scripting language (for example Python Go Java or similar) to build tooling and automate operations.

• Experience with modern observability practices including metrics logging tracing and incident response in production environments.

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams to Deliver stable scalable and secure platforms and services.

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation for application and infrastructure deployments.

• Experience using AI to build software and workflows for infrastructure and productivity.

• Or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

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. we help customers navigate buying selling financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. Whether youre working in tech sales operations or design youll be part of a company thats reshaping an industry and helping more people make home a reality.

Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the country. 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 identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please contact your recruiter directly.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local law.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.