Principal Software Development Engineer

Zillow
Bengaluru
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Communications, PR & CommunityExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Influence without authority","Design documentation","Production ownership","Written communication"]

Build and evolve Zillow’s “paved road” developer delivery platform for CI/CD, build/runner infrastructure, and progressive delivery. As founding Principal Engineer in India’s Developer Experience Delivery Engineering team, you’ll set architecture and standards for GitLab and Artifactory integrations, drive reliability and security practices, and lead production ownership (on-call, incident response, SLOs). You’ll mentor engineers, shape new site culture, and modernize legacy CI/CD.

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Principal Software Development Engineer

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Job Summary

Build and evolve Zillow’s “paved road” developer delivery platform for CI/CD, build/runner infrastructure, and progressive delivery. As founding Principal Engineer in India’s Developer Experience Delivery Engineering team, you’ll set architecture and standards for GitLab and Artifactory integrations, drive reliability and security practices, and lead production ownership (on-call, incident response, SLOs). You’ll mentor engineers, shape new site culture, and modernize legacy CI/CD.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set the architecture for CI/CD execution, build and runner infrastructure, GitLab/Artifactory integrations, and the paved paths used by Zillow engineers.
  • •Drive patterns and standards adopted by other teams in India-owned areas through design authority and collaboration.
  • •Take ambiguous components from problem framing through production-ready, observable, and well-documented systems.
  • •Hire and mentor engineers, raise quality through design reviews, and help establish engineering standards.
  • •Lead safe adoption of AI across migration, code review, platform operations, incident triage, and rollout guidance.

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of software engineering experience, with extensive experience in large-scale CI/CD, build/runner infrastructure, cloud-native platform engineering, developer productivity tooling, or SRE/platform systems.
  • •Strong system design and architecture judgment for scalable, reliable, maintainable systems with testability, resilience, security, and observability.
  • •Technical leadership and influence without direct authority, aligning multiple teams on standards and tradeoffs.
  • •Production ownership experience including incident response, on-call, operational debugging, capacity planning, and post-incident prevention.
  • •Strong programming fundamentals in Python, Java, Go, or similar, with ability to review code, debug systems, and reason about performance and concurrency.
Experience:10+ yearsCI/CDSREPlatform engineering
Skills:Technical leadershipInfluence without authorityDesign documentationProduction ownershipWritten communication
Tech Stack:GitLabGitLab DedicatedGitLab DuoCI/CDRunnersLinuxMacOSIOSAndroidArtifactoryProgressive DeliveryCanary deploymentsAWSKubernetesTerraformContainersInfrastructure as codeGitLab integrationsSaltStackAnsible

Company Brief

Zillow
Operates an online real estate marketplace providing listings, valuation estimates, rentals, and agent tools. Connects buyers, sellers, renters, and real estate professionals with data-driven search, home Zestimate valuations, and advertising services.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Seattle, United States
Founded: 2006
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