Director Platform Engineering

About the role

What We’re Looking For
We are looking for an experienced leader to define the future of Platform Engineering. We want someone that has experience and is eager to lead a team of highly capable developers to deliver highly scalable and reliable solutions for our back-end services platform and application development. This is a fantastic opportunity to help solve complex but interesting scalability, performance and availability challenges for products consumed by millions of users each day! You will have the opportunity to work with a suite of great technologies and in a highly collaborative environment. This is a hands-on leadership role.

What You’ll Do
As the Director of Platform Engineering, you’ll be responsible for leading the Cloud Infrastructure and Application Infrastructure teams to build out our application development and deployment framework. Working with our Software Architect, you’ll enhance and evolve the architecture and design for our scalable microservices. Your teams will enable other engineers across the organization to quickly build out services that support a wide variety of initiatives, including web application development, data ingestion, container orchestration, and more.

Your Responsibilities Will Include, But Aren’t Limited To

• Lead the growth and development of an incredible team of talented and motivated engineers with high expectations around individual ownership and impact
• Set the direction for the team and anticipate strategic and scaling-related challenges via thoughtful long-term planning
• Design solutions within the context of available infrastructure by taking into account scalability, availability, reliability, stability, security, and performance
• Work with other engineering leaders to implement a scalable application development and deployment platform including internal tooling to help development teams moves faster
• Contribute to long-term technology solutions based on business needs, architecture, and strategic drivers
• Continuously stay up to date with industry changes and bring new ideas to the team
• Identify, evaluate, and select appropriate technology in alignment with engineering needs

About the team

Trulia was founded in 2005 with the simple idea of making it easier for people to find a home. Today, this remains the core mission of the company, inspiring us to solve big problems and do great work. Trulia is an important part of Zillow Group, which houses a portfolio of the largest and most vibrant real estate and home-related brands.

This position within Zillow Group provides advantages for engineers who want to make a huge impact. We operate like a start-up within a large organization, with the mandate to innovate and build cool, consumer-facing products, while enjoying the benefits and resources that Zillow Group offers. Our engineers are allowed to focus on building products that make it easy and fun to find a place to live, for millions of people.

Who you are

Skills, Accomplishments, Interests You Should Have

• 7-10 years of hands-on technical expertise leading teams who provide application development and deployment tools
• Experience with a consumer web company with millions of consumers
• Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of training and experience
• Experience with building and leading teams of more than 10 engineers and a couple of managers
• Have 4+ years of cloud experience in AWS, with an emphasis on
  • VPCs, subnets, and peering
  • Security (shared responsibility model)
  • Cost controls
  • RDS
• Experience creating build and deployment pipelines within a microservices architecture
• Thorough understanding of the challenges of working with distributed and multi-threaded systems along with experience monitoring those systems and troubleshooting problems
• Expertise with engineering practices such as code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, and application security
• Ability to iterate quickly in an agile development process
• You will bring your knowledge and experience of SDLC, high performance scalable cloud architecture, AWS and CI/CD
• Experience with open source solutions, using and deploying on cloud based platforms
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery
• DevOps best practices
• Container orchestration
• Monitoring and performance, log aggregation (Splunk, ELK, etc), request tracing, APM and server monitoring (New Relic, App Dynamics, Datadog, CloudWatch, etc.)
• General architecture concepts such as API gateways, queues, GraphQL

Get to know us

At Trulia, we believe that when it comes to finding a home, what’s outside the front door is just as important as what’s behind it. That’s why we go beyond the typical listings and source insights straight from locals. We offer over 34 neighborhood map overlays to give people a deeper understanding of what living in a home and neighborhood is really like. We’re committed to helping people discover a place where they’ll love to live and where they will feel more connected to the community and to each other. It’s why we strive every day to help build a more neighborly world. Launched in 2005, Trulia is based in San Francisco and is owned and operated by Zillow Group.

Zillow Group is owned, fueled and grown by innovators who help people make better, smarter decisions around all things home. We encourage one another at every level, and our efforts are supported by employee-driven, world-class benefits that enable us to enjoy our lives outside the office while building fulfilling careers that impact millions of individuals every day.

Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. If there are preparations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.