About the team
The Platform Infrastructure Engineering team transforms sophisticated infrastructure systems into simple, efficient, and reliable solutions, focusing on scalable operational methodologies to drive business impact and cost savings. Zillow Group Incident Management (ZGIM) develops and promotes standard processes for incident management, root cause analysis, and change management that improves product availability for Zillow customers, so they can unlock lifes next chapter!
The team plays a pivotal role in the companys success by managing major outages and helping product teams drive down incident detection and recovery times via the RCA process. This team works closely with software development engineers while supporting all users and Zillow Group brands. Your work with us will be highly visible throughout Zillow Group and have a significant impact on all parts of the business!
About the role
In this role, you will play a key role in ensuring the operational… resilience, availability, and performance of Zillow services via the incident and problem management processes. You will manage the team responsible for incident management and lead the program across Zillow Group. You will develop the team and program and drive proactive readiness, change management, incident management, and root cause analysis. This requires cross-functional collaboration with highly technical engineers and senior business leaders.
As a Senior Manager, Incident Management, you will:
Lead incident lifecycle from onset, detection, advising, remediation, elimination, and governance
Collaborate cross-functionally across product, engineering, and supporting teams to promote prevention and detection standard processes and urgently respond to incidents through program adoption and performance to expectations
Hold engineering teams accountable for service disruptions through root cause analysis (RCA), action items, and metrics
Establish and define processes that can scale through simplicity, self-service, and automation (i.e., we focus on enabling, self-service, education/outreach)
Define, build, and share regular metrics to show the programs influence on helping the business realize specific reliability posture targets and outcomes
Translate business objectives and product strategy into technical strategy and lead and successfully deliver through collaboration and agile leadership
Develop and drive the roadmap of the team and program
Lead continual service improvement and ongoing process maturity through regular reviews of the process and tools, trend analysis and metrics reporting, and through regular engagement with customers
Participate in major incidents 24x7x365 to ensure timely resolution and program efficiency
Anticipate and purposefully remove obstacles that slow down or prevent the team from delivering on objectives
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 California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $197,100.00 – $314,900.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC and may not be applicable to other locations.
In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location.
Who you are
Shown experience in a software development environment
5+ years of people leadership experience, with a track record of getting results through others
Direct experience leading incidents or managing incident managers or closely related programs is strongly preferred
Shown success delivering projects through team members that report to you, and can collaborate successfully with partner teams
Strong dedication to operational excellence, constantly striving to uncover the underlying causes of problems, using data to guide your decision-making, and encouraging a culture of ongoing improvement within your team
Passionate about career development and multiplying the impact of your team members, providing mentoring and coaching to individual contributors
Comfortable with data analytics and calculations of industry standard metrics: MTTR, MTTD, etc.
A high sense of ownership, a low ego, a can-do attitude, and a sense of curiosity that is reflected in growing skills on a continual basis
Experience with Jira, Opsgenie, Zapier, Tableau, DataBricks, Splunk, DataDog, or AWS is a plus
Get to know us
Zillow is reimagining real estate to make home a reality for more and more people.
As the most-visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow® and its affiliates help movers find and win their home through digital solutions, first class partners, and easier buying, selling, financing and renting experiences. Millions of people visit Zillow Group sites every month to start their home search, and now they can rely on Zillow to help make it easier to move. The work we do helps people get home and no matter what job youre in, you will play a critical role in making home a reality for more and more people.
Our efforts to streamline the real estate transaction are supported by a deep-rooted culture of innovation, our passion to redefine the employee experience, a fundamental commitment to Equity and Belonging, and world-class benefits. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverages as well as parental leave, family benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off. Were also setting the standard for work experiences of the future, where our employees are supported in doing their best work and living a flexible, well-balanced life. But dont just take our word for it. Read recent reviews on Glassdoor and recent recognition from multiple organizations, including: the 100 Best Companies to Work For, Glassdoor Employees Choice Award, Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equity Index, and TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.
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