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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in designing and building backend services and APIs for cloud capabilities, with a strong focus on system design for distributed systems and API-based platforms. Proficient in leveraging public cloud services, particularly AWS, and implementing infrastructure-as-code practices to enhance platform reliability and security.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Backend Service DevelopmentGolang or Python ProgrammingAWS Cloud ExperienceInfrastructure-as-Code with TerraformCI/CD Pipeline Management
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Hard Skills
Backend Service DevelopmentAPI DesignSystem Design for Distributed SystemsGolang ProgrammingPython ProgrammingAWS Cloud ServicesInfrastructure-as-CodeCloud Security FundamentalsCI/CD Pipeline ManagementTesting and Debugging
Tools & Technologies
TerraformGitLab PipelinesGitHub ActionsJenkinsArgo
Industry Keywords
Cloud CapabilitiesSelf-Service PlatformObservabilityService MeshNetwork Segmentation
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSCloudDistributed SystemsJenkinsLinuxPythonTerraformGo
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Design, build, and own backend services and APIs that make cloud capabilities self-service
- Build software interfaces for account provisioning, networking, IAM, and policy
- Turn recurring cloud work and manual runbooks into safe-by-default APIs, controls, and automation
- Understand internal Zillow engineering teams’ use cases and shape platform interfaces and paved paths
- Use feedback and usage data to drive the platform roadmap
- Design for observability, SLOs, and self-healing
- Participate in on-call for shipped production services
- Lead follow-up work that eliminates classes of reliability problems
- Use AI-assisted and agentic tooling to accelerate design, implementation, and operations
- Influence Platform Engineering’s public cloud enablement strategy and roadmap
- Develop foundational capabilities into a cohesive self-service platform
Requirements
What you’ll need- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend or platform services in production
- Solid system design skills for distributed systems and API-based platforms
- Production experience in Golang or Python (preferred), or another modern language
- Solid testing, code review, and debugging habits
- Strong experience with at least one public cloud provider, preferably AWS
- Knowledge of AWS primitives including VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers, security groups, IAM, compute, and storage
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform
- Experience reviewing infrastructure changes for safety and managing drift
- Working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals, including IAM, network segmentation, encryption, and policy enforcement in multi-account environments
- Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Argo
- Experience building or contributing to internal platforms or developer tooling (nice to have)
- Experience treating an internal platform as a product (nice to have)
- Familiarity with service-to-service networking, service mesh, workload identity, or rate limiting in cloud environments (nice to have)
- Strong Linux systems and networking fundamentals (nice to have)
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equity awards based on experience, performance, and location
- Remote work from a physical location of the employee’s choice
- Flexible distributed work through Cloud HQ
- Accommodation support for disabilities or special needs