Senior DevOps Engineer

About the teamThe Zillow Mobile App Platform team’s mission is to provide a suite of infrastructure and services that empower Zillow Group’s iOS and Android development teams to build best-in-class mobile applications. The Mobile App Platform DevOps squad is responsible for the design, development, maintenance and operation of the systems and tools that enable all Zillow Group mobile app 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 mobile application development teams. It is a broad area of ownership that has a critical impact on the quality and efficiency of mobile app development at Zillow Group.

About the role

We're looking for a DevOps engineer with deep experience provisioning, maintaining, and operating CI/CD infrastructure and supporting software services. On the Mobile App Platform team, our “customers” are our peers: mobile app developers at Zillow Group. You’ll build, maintain, and operate the infrastructure and event-driven services that run hundreds of thousands of mobile app workloads every month. You’ll design, collect and report on metrics across the software development lifecycle in search of ways to make pipelines even faster and more reliable. If you have a passion for making hundreds of software engineers happy, productive, and efficient every single day, this is the role for you!

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees 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. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

In California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $158,200.00 - $252,800.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC 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

• Expert in cloud-based linux and/or macOS server administration, and optimizing compute infrastructure for CI/CD workloads

• Proficient in building containerized and serverless programs in modern languages such as Python, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, or Golang. 

• Deep understanding of cloud networking, virtualization, storage, observability, security, and cost optimization

• You love infrastructure-as-code, declarative programming, and immutable infrastructure

• Experience with varying deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, Progressive Delivery)

• You’re passionate about making it easy and efficient to deliver constantly evolving, large-scale mobile applications.

• You love to give talks, trainings, and write how-to guides

• Strong communication skills to interact with audiences that include customers, peers and leadership

• 5+ years of systems administration and/or software development experience

Additionally, the following items are preferred, but not required:

• Experience deploying tools to offload local development tasks onto remote infrastructure, such as operating distributed build caches and/or remote build execution. 

• Experience in automated testing of infrastructure code and CI/CD components to enable fast and stable upgrading and patching 

• Experience deploying, customizing, and measuring self-hosted runner software (such as the gitlab-runner), and contributing back to these open source projects

• Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters on cloud providers

Get to know us

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As the most-visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow® and its affiliates help movers find and win their home through digital solutions, first class partners, and easier buying, selling, financing and renting experiences. Millions of people visit Zillow Group sites every month to start their home search, and now they can rely on Zillow to help make it easier to move. The work we do helps people get home and no matter what job you're in, you will play a critical role in making home a reality for more and more people.

Our efforts to streamline the real estate transaction are supported by a deep-rooted culture of innovation, our passion to redefine the employee experience, a fundamental commitment to Equity and Belonging, and world-class benefits. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverages as well as parental leave, family benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off. We’re also setting the standard for work experiences of the future, where our employees are supported in doing their best work and living a flexible, well-balanced life. But don’t just take our word for it. Read recent reviews on Glassdoor and recent recognition from multiple organizations, including: the 100 Best Companies to Work For, Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equity Index, and TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.

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