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Looking for your next opportunity in Engineering Leadership? Or know someone who might be a great fit? We’re looking for talented individuals to join our team at Zillow! What you’ll do 🔹 Build and grow a high-impact founding team that owns platform, Progressive Delivery, migration, and mobile-release work as first-class contributors. 🔹 Establish a follow-the-sun operating model with defined overlap, handoff practices, async-first documentation, and a phased India on-call rotation. 🔹 Hire a senior founding team and set and hold a high hiring bar. 🔹 Partner with US area leads and the TPM to allocate capacity, limit work in progress, reduce context switching, and drive predictable delivery. 🔹 Raise the bar on operational excellence: on-call practices, incident response, post-incident reviews, SLOs, runbooks, and toil reduction. 🔹 Champion AI-first delivery across the SDLC, including agentic migration, AI code review, rollout analysis, and platform operations. 🔹 Create a healthy engineering culture across time zones with clear goals, feedback, performance management, development plans, and technical-leadership growth. What you’ll bring 🔹 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ years managing engineering teams that build backend, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or developer-productivity services. 🔹 Staff+ technical depth and sound judgment: able to align business goals with platform capabilities and guide architecture beyond the immediate team. 🔹 Strong operating experience: production ownership, on-call, incident response, observability, runbooks, and improving reliability over time. 🔹 A proven hiring and talent-development bar: able to recruit, assess, onboard, mentor, and manage performance with clarity and empathy. 🔹 Exceptional written and verbal communication across seniority levels and geographies; comfortable with async-first decision-making. 🔹 Demonstrated ability to build trust with distributed stakeholders and represent India engineering as a peer ownership function. Preferred Qualifications 🔹 Experience building or scaling a new site or distributed engineering team, especially across US–India. 🔹 Experience in DevEx, platform, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, release engineering, or SRE organizations supporting many internal customers. 🔹 Hands-on familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab, CI/CD runners, observability tooling, and modern incident management. 🔹 Experience applying AI to engineering workflows with a quality, governance, and developer-trust mindset. Interested? Or know someone who could be a great fit? Feel free to DM me or tag someone who might be interested. Happy to connect and help with a referral! #Zillow #WeAreHiring #EngineeringManager #SoftwareEngineering #EngineeringLeadership #PlatformEngineering #DevOps #SRE #Hiring