Principal Software Development Engineer

About the team

The Developer Experience Delivery Engineering team is responsible for the design, development, maintenance and operation of the systems and tools that enable all Zillow Group engineers to build, test, deploy and ship features to our customers. Our team is at the forefront of adopting new technologies and processes which create company wide standards for product development teams. It is a broad area of ownership that has a critical impact on the quality and efficiency of all software development at Zillow Group

About the role

As a Principal Engineer in the DevEx Delivery Engineering organization you will have a key role in helping Zillow Group design and build cross company platforms so we can radically transform developer experience for our engineers. You will work closely with senior leaders and principal engineers across the DevEx organization to help guide our architecture and technical strategy. You will mentor engineering leaders and lead our DevEx engineering architecture group to set the direction for how we build and evolve our platforms. You will help us build and evolve high scale distributed services, and work across teams to understand and resolve sophisticated issues. You will provide a key role in helping continue to improve our engineering excellence.

You will also be part of the broader Zillow Group engineering architecture group which will help set a broader technical strategy for all of Zillow Group. You will be a critical technical voice for the senior leadership team.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver long-term technical strategy for Delivery Engineering

• Work with teams and technical leaders across the organization to understand architecture and align strategy/vision on shared platforms

• Mentor and develop principal and senior technical leaders across the organization

• Help set operational excellence standards and best practices

• Communicate strategy, roadmap, and decisions to senior leadership

• Champion improvements in the quality and stability of service fundamentals and promote engineering best practices

• Help the team shorten our development cycles while maintaining high quality

• Demonstrate strong customer empathy, curiosity, willingness to question and learn, ability to collaborate across teams, and ability to align stakeholders

• Partner with Senior Product Leadership to align engineering capability to business strategy

In California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New York and Washington the standard base pay range for this role is $186,300.00 - $297,700.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New York and Washington and may not be applicable to other locations.

In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location.

Who you are

• 8+ years of experience building and shipping production grade software or services
• Strong understanding of software design patterns and principles
• Strong understanding of SDLC principles, architecture and operations.
• Modern programming languages with a focus on frontend development - Node, Typescript, JavaScript, React, Next JS.
• Experience with and strong knowledge of GraphQL
• UX Design or Graphic Design Experience
• Knowledge of containerized applications
• Knowledge of using AWS or other cloud services
• Experience setting architecture vision and strategy for an organization
• Experience in developing highly available services at internet scale
• Ability to collaborate across teams and leaders, indirectly influence others in a positive way, and navigate difficult conversations and decisions
• Strong communication skills to interact with audiences that include customers, peers and executive leadership
• Have experience and passion for mentoring and guiding engineers, helping develop and grow technical leaders
• Inspiring leader who can create and communicate a vision or plan
• A strategic thinker with a customer focus and product understanding. Someone who can help make tough trade-off decisions with the long term view of our customers in mind.

Get to know us

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