Senior Software Engineer, Big Data at Zillow

This role is for a seasoned distributed systems expert who has spent at least five years managing high-stakes production environments. You should have deep, hands-on experience tuning Kafka or Flink and feel comfortable designing the control planes that other developers use to manage their own data streams. **What makes it worth a look...** The compensation is high, reaching up to $257k plus equity for a fully remote position. You will have a rare level of influence over the core architectural standards of a massive data platform while working on "tier-0" systems that cannot afford to go down. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have significant experience scaling Kafka or Flink for massive real-time workloads. * Are comfortable writing infrastructure-as-code with Terraform to manage AWS resources. * Prefer building platform tools like APIs and CLIs over building user-facing products. * Can lead technical incident responses and set meaningful SLOs for distributed systems.