About the team the transformation enablers (te) team is part of zillow’s platform engineering organization and plays a key role in accelerating how product teams deliver experiences for our customers. We build, evolve, and drive adoption of scalable platform capabilities, operating with a platform-as-a-product mindset so teams can independently build, deploy, and operate reliable services using well-designed “paved roads,” strong defaults, and self-service tooling.
About the role
as a senior software development engineer on the transformation enablers (te) team, you will design, build, and drive adoption of platform capabilities that improve developer velocity, system reliability, and operational maturity across zillow group. You will work closely with product and platform teams to identify friction in the developer and operational experience, create reusable solutions that remove that friction at scale, and enable teams through tooling, strategic planning, and governance. This role blends hands-on engineering, customer empathy, and product thinking to deliver durable improvements that multiply the impact of teams across zillow.
You will get to
design and implement reusable infrastructure, tooling, and workflows that improve reliability, scalability, and developer experience across zillow
ensure platform solutions are discoverable, intuitive, and widely adopted, measuring success by customer and business impact rather than output alone
enable teams at scale by replacing one-off fixes and escalations with automation, clear “paved roads,” and well-documented guidance
partner directly with product and platform teams to understand pain points, co-create solutions, and influence engineering best practices
apply sre principles such as observability, automation, an