Senior Software Development Engineer - Remote-USA

About the team

The Observability Development team builds and maintains solutions to provide our Product and Engineering teams visibility into the health and performance across our Zillow Group ecosystem.

We are passionate about metrics, distributed tracing and logging! Our team is using commercial vendor, open source and in-house developed solutions providing observability through every layer of our technology stack.

About the role

Are you interested in being a technical leader, guiding engineers across Zillow Group on the best ways to monitor applications and building the tooling to support them? Do you like using and contributing to open source projects? We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to help us build a world class observability solution at Zillow Group! This role will be designing and developing highly available and resilient observability solutions which operate at scale and can help with detection and restoration of problems at each layer of the application stack.

​Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to some of the highest-traffic systems at Zillow, scaling to millions of metrics, and billions of logs lines and trace events a minute.

• Contribute to the long term technology and product vision for observability at Zillow Group.

• Contribute to open source regularly, both bug fixes and helping drive the larger project vision and roadmap.

• Obsess about building systems by enabling observability out of the box and continually learning from and improving the developer experience. 

• Gain and share expertise, evangelizing the best ways to use observability systems.

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 …