Senior Software Engineer, Big Data

About the team

At Zillow, the Data Insights team empowers teams across the company to create and consume trusted, self-service insights at scale. We build and operate the platform capabilities behind reporting, dashboards, interactive analytical applications, and AI-powered analytics. We also own key parts of Zillow’s trusted metrics foundation and the compute and warehouse capabilities that power analytics across the business.

Beyond the platform itself, we help define the standards, reusable patterns, and governance that make insights easier to build, easier to trust, and easier to scale across Zillow Group. This aligns with the team’s broader direction around a single trusted metrics foundation, AI-native self-service, improved discovery, and tooling convergence.

This team sits at the center of Zillow’s data ecosystem. The systems we build support engineers, data scientists, executives, product managers, and business teams across Zillow Group.
You’ll work on a broad set of high-impact problems, from trusted metrics and platform architecture to AI-enabled analytics experiences. You’ll help shape how teams across Zillow discover data, ask questions, and make decisions with confidence.

About the role

We’re hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer  to help build the next generation of Zillow’s analytics and insights platform.
 

This role is ideal for an engineer with strong software engineering fundamentals and experience in data platforms or data engineering. Experience with AI/LLM-powered workflows is preferred. You’ll work on high-impact platform problems at the intersection of trusted metrics, self-service analytics, metadata, and AI-powered workflows.
 

You’ll help make it easier for teams across Zillow to onboard to the platform, discover trusted data, ask better questions, and build insights without reinventing tooling or redefining metrics. Current work includes efforts around semantic consistency, onboarding, discoverability, and operationalizing AI-ready data workflows.

 

What you’ll do

• Build and evolve platform capabilities for reporting, dashboards, interactive applications, and AI-powered analytical experiences

• Develop systems that improve how users discover, understand, and use trusted data and metrics

• Contribute to the metrics, metadata, and governance foundations that enable reliable self-service analytics at scale

• Improve analytics infrastructure, warehouse and compute integrations, and platform developer experience

• Design and ship AI-enabled workflows that simplify onboarding, insight creation, and interaction with the data platform

• Apply LLMs pragmatically in product and developer workflows to improve usability, quality, and productivity

• Own projects end-to-end, from design through production rollout and adoption

• Partner with engineers, data scientists, product managers, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable analytics solutions used across Zillow Group

• Help define technical standards, golden paths, and reusable patterns that raise consistency and trust across the analytics ecosystem

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 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

Required

• Strong software engineering experience, including designing and shipping production systems

• Experience in data engineering, data platforms, analytics infrastructure, or warehouse and compute systems

• Experience building scalable, reliable platform capabilities used by multiple teams

• Ability to work through ambiguity and drive technical solutions in a fast-moving environment

• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence across teams

• Experience using and operating Databricks
   

Preferred

• Experience building AI/LLM-powered product or developer experiences

• Familiarity with BI tools such as Tableau, Amplitude, Power BI.

• Familiarity with prompt engineering, evaluation, or guardrails for AI-assisted workflows

• Experience with semantic layers, metrics platforms, metadata systems, or self-service analytics tooling

• Product sense for internal platforms, including reducing friction, improving adoption, and making complex systems intuitive for users

• 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 customers 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.

Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the country. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2025, and included on the PEOPLE Companies That Care® 2025 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 an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local 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.