Senior Software Development Engineer

About the team

Agent Software Analytics & Reporting is growing the data and analytics platform behind Zillow Pro Platform, Zillow's software for real estate professionals. We consolidate listing, showing, and market activity data from across Zillow, turn it into datasets teams can rely on, and delight agents, brokers, and teams through the products they run their business on — the Zillow Pro Listing Performance Dashboard, ShowingTime, MarketStats, Zillow Pro metrics APIs and more.
Most of what the Senior Software Development Engineer builds here ends up in a report an agent shows a seller who's making decisions about their listing, one of the largest financial decisions most people ever make. A stale dataset or a rollup that's quietly off by a few percent shows up in that conversation. So correctness, freshness, and monitoring get real engineering time on this team — they aren't cleanup work we get to after the pipeline ships.

About the role

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will own the pipelines and real time databases behind Listing Performance Dashboard and other Zillow Pro analytics products. You’ll modernize and maintain how we operate the long-running data systems behind ShowingTime. This is hands-on work at real volume, on datasets that customers act on the same day they land.

You will get to:

• Design, build and own large-scale batch and streaming pipelines in Databricks and Spark that turn raw Zillow data sources into curated, well-modeled datasets teams across Zillow depend on.
• Raise the bar on correctness: design automated validation, reconciliation, and data quality checks so problems are caught by the pipeline rather than by a customer.
• Make the platform observable — metrics, lineage, service level objectives, and alerting that tell us a dataset is late, wrong, or degraded before anyone asks.
• Scale and tune what we run, improving the performance and cost profile of Spark jobs and the serving layer as data volume count grow.
• Take on the operational health of ShowingTime's established data systems, adding observability and headroom and replacing manual toil with automation.
• Shape the data models and contracts that downstream reporting products and analytics teams build on.
• Own your systems in production, including on-call for what you ship, and lead the follow-up work that removes whole classes of problems instead of patching single incidents.
• Use modern AI-assisted and agentic tooling to accelerate design, implementation, and operations while keeping quality high.

This role has been categorized as a teleworker position. Teleworkers 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. Employees may live anywhere in Mexico, with availability to travel to Mexico City, as we recommend attendance at occasional office events.

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

Who you are

You're a Senior Software Development Engineer who cares as much about whether the numbers are right as whether the job finished.

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating data pipelines in production.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or Scala, with solid testing, code review, and debugging habits.
• Deep hands-on experience with Apache Spark and a modern lakehouse or big data platform such as Databricks.
• Experience designing both batch and streaming pipelines, including event streaming with Kafka or Flink.
• Strong SQL and data modeling skills across relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience building on AWS with products like S3, RDS, or SQS.
• Demonstrated experience at real scale — terabytes of data or billions of records — where performance and cost are design constraints.
• A rigorous approach to data quality: automated validation, reconciliation, data contracts, and tests you actually trust.
• Experience owning systems in production, including on-call, instrumentation, and service level objectives.
• Here at Zillow – we value the experience and perspective of candidates with non-traditional backgrounds. We encourage you to apply if you have transferable skills or related experiences.

Get to know us

At Zillow, we’re reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through their careers. As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., we help people navigate buying, selling, financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. Whether you're working in tech, sales, operations, or design, you’ll be part of a company that's reshaping an industry and helping more people make home a reality.

How we work is a key part of that transformation. Through Cloud HQ, our strategic approach to distributed work, most employees have the flexibility to work from wherever they’re most productive—enabling us to move fast, stay connected and deliver on our people promise.

Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the U.S.. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2026, and included on TIME’s America’s Best Companies 2026 list, reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.

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.

Zillow Group is committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and to providing equal employment opportunities. We comply with applicable laws that prohibit discrimination in employment and recruitment.

If you have a disability or special need that requires reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter directly.

Qualified applicants will be considered for employment based on their qualifications and ability to perform the functions of the position, without discrimination and in accordance with applicable law.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.