About the team

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Zillow's Real Estate Data and Analytics Platform (REDAP) teams are responsible for ensuring our most critical data is available around the clock. This includes all listings of what's available on the housing market, all public record information, personalization data, and market derivatives data (such as regional housing statistics and Zestimate). Property data is the beating heart of Zillow; it is a foundational component that powers all of Zillow's products!The Data Consolidation and Metrics Platform (DCMP) team owns a framework to consolidate data from multiple sources and deliver a single unified document to applications throughout the Zillow Group enterprise. Our platform is built on open source data streaming software such as Flink and Kafka. Given our critical role in the end-user experience, we care deeply about the performance, resiliency, scalability, and adaptability of our services.Zillow, the top real estate website in the U.S., is building an on-demand real estate experience. Whether selling, buying, renting or financing, customers can turn to Zillow to find and get into their next home with speed, certainty and ease.

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About the role

As a Data Engineer on the DCP team, you will architect and build foundational data pipelines and platforms to deliver up to date information to the entire Zillow infrastructure. You will work within a small team of software developers.

We believe in autonomy and fast paced product development, so self-motivation and high energy are must-haves for ideal candidates. This is a successful remote team, so it's important that candidates have a high level of comfort with remote and asynchronous collaboration.

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

In addition to a competitive base salary and benefits, this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.

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Who you are

• Highly Proficient in Java or similar language
• Experience building and maintaining sophisticated data pipelines, writing scalable and reliable code
• Familiarity with a Cloud platform (e.g. AWS) and with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform)
• Understanding of the concepts behind distributed databases, and both streaming and batch processing systems
• You thrive in ambiguity and learn quickly
• You have excellent communication skills
• A degree in Computer Science or related field; or equivalent work experience
• You are at ease collaborating in a remote-first work environment

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