Principal Software Development Engineer

About the team

The Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) team is focused on providing Zillow an authentication and authorization platform that can scale across one of the largest websites in the US. We work on services, libraries and components that accelerate teams across all of Zillow’s brands to enable seamless features for all of our customers, whether they are on desktop or mobile, web or native. We're always looking for ways to improve our processes and move quickly while ensuring our end-users get the best experience. If you love solving complex problems, building services, and bridging the gap to new business opportunities, read on to learn more!

About the role

You will lead our authentication and authorization strategy, coordinate with product and business teams across the company to align to our vision, and work closely with Senior Engineers to implement, design, and deliver features that are used by millions of users across nearly every team at Zillow. Our Auth strategy is a pivotal feature of our existing technical strategy, and our partner teams are eager to work with a strong leader who can deliver for them quickly.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in all stages of application development, including partnering with product and design on feature conception, and leading our development teams in architecture, development, testing, deployment and monitoring.

• Iterate quickly and ship code when it's ready. You'll help the team shorten our development cycle while maintaining high quality.

• Develop infrastructure for a cloud platform that can handle high-volume traffic

• Design Relational, NoSQL and Distributed Processing solutions

• Ensure software is production-ready and is properly supervised for metrics, logging, and performance profiling

• Evaluate and recommend the best software designs and architecture for scalability

• Work with highly capable teammates and combine your creative solutions with the latest industry tools and design patterns to advance our shared technical vision.

• Provide feedback that will influence design direction for the team’s features.

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, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $186,300.00 - $297,700.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to California, Colorado, …