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About the role
As a Senior Software Development Engineer on Public Cloud Foundations, you will build the services and APIs that abstract away the complexity of the public cloud, and own them as products from design through operation. You'll help take a set of foundational capabilities and turn them into a cohesive, self-service platform that Zillow engineers experience as a product, not a queue. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Design, build, and own backend services and APIs that make cloud capabilities self-service: account provisioning, networking, IAM, and policy exposed as clean software interfaces rather than tickets or manual processes
- Turn recurring cloud work into products. Take patterns that today depend on human judgment or hand-run runbooks and encode them into APIs, controls, and automation that are safe by default
- Treat teams across Zillow as the customers of your platform: understand their use cases, shape the interfaces and paved paths they build on, and let their feedback and usage data drive your roadmap
- Use modern AI-assisted and agentic tooling to accelerate design, implementation, and operations while keeping quality and safety high
- Influence how Platform Engineering approaches public cloud enablement, bringing a product mindset to design discussions and roadmap decisions
More about this role
The Public Cloud Foundations (PCF) team is part of Platform Engineering. We build the internal cloud platform that every Zillow engineer builds on: the self-service APIs, paved paths, and automation that turn the raw complexity of AWS into a small set of safe, reliable, well-documented product surfaces.
We treat the platform as a product. Rather than handling cloud infrastructure as a queue of tickets and one-off requests, we design software that lets teams provision accounts, networking, and shared infrastructure themselves, safe by default. Our current work shows the direction: self-service VPC connectivity, a Terraform delivery platform, container base images delivered as a managed product, and provisioning and policy capabilities exposed as APIs instead of runbooks. We partner closely with Runtime Platform, Database Engineering, Middleware Engineering, Delivery Engineering, and Security to replace manual cloud work with software.
PCF is where you help decide how Zillow uses the public cloud, and how a platform team turns operational surface area into engineered products.
As a Senior Software Development Engineer on Public Cloud Foundations, you will build the services and APIs...
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