The Developer Experience (DevEx) Delivery Engineering team builds and operates Zillow's 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. We are shifting from hands-on infrastructure operations toward secure, compliant, AI-first paved paths that improve reliability, release safety, and developer productivity.
As one of the founding members, you'll help shape a brand-new engineering site while working on infrastructure that multiplies the productivity of the entire engineering organization.
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.
- 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. 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.

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

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.
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. 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.
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 robust willingness to ramp quickly.
- Strong SDLC,



architecture, automation, and operations mindset; Demonstrated ability to use AI deliberately in the SDLC while validating suggestions and retaining engineering ownership.
- Experience on platform or infrastructure teams supporting many internal customers and product surfaces.

Mobile build infrastructure experience (iOS or Android).
Depth in GitLab, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Artifactory, Datadog, Splunk, Rootly, or similar ecosystems.
Prior experience in a founding team, new site, or distributed engineering organization.

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

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.

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.

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.

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