Senior Software Development Engineer - Big Data
Core
Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to power analytics, machine learning, and AI-driven experiences across Zillow.
Role type
Senior Software Development Engineer (Big Data)
Builds
Scalable data pipelines, services, APIs, and the company context layer/agentic platform tools
Domain
Real Estate / Big Data Engineering / Cloud-Native
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Architecting scalable data pipelines, designing data models and storage patterns, optimizing processing frameworks, leading technical design reviews, implementing automated testing and monitoring, evaluating new big data technologies, building agentic solutions, cloud-native development
Preferred skills
Databricks experience, building agentic solutions with major AI tools
Technologies
Big data technologies, streaming technologies, cloud-native technologies, Databricks
Responsibilities
Architect and implement scalable, secure, and observable data pipelines; Design and optimize data models and processing frameworks for high-volume workloads; Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineers on data quality and resiliency; Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into production-grade data solutions; Implement automated testing, monitoring, and alerting for data services; Evaluate and introduce new big data technologies to improve scalability; Build the company context layer and agentic platform tools and APIs
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
