1. What is a Data Engineer at Zillow?
At Zillow, data is the foundation of every product, decision, and user experience. As a Data Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain the highly scalable data pipelines and platforms that power the most visited real estate network in the United States. Your work directly impacts millions of buyers, sellers, and renters by ensuring that property listings, historical transactions, and market trends are processed accurately and delivered in real time.
You will work on problems of massive scale, handling petabytes of spatial, geographic, and financial data. Whether you are optimizing the data ingestion pipelines that feed the world-famous Zestimate algorithm, structuring data lakes to support complex machine learning models, or building robust analytics platforms for internal business partners, your technical contributions will have a direct, visible influence on the real estate market.
This role requires a unique blend of software engineering discipline and data architecture expertise. Zillow looks for engineers who do not just write code, but who also understand how data flows through a complex ecosystem. You will be expected to make strategic decisions about storage, compute, and data modeling that balance performance, cost, and reliability.




