Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer designs, implements, and supports Zillow’s network infrastructure to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable connectivity for employees, customers, and platforms. This role applies seasoned technical expertise to resolve moderately complex network issues, collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver stable services, and contributes to continuous improvement of network performance, monitoring, and automation. Zillow Group is a strategic, mission-driven organization focused on delivering exceptional experiences and measurable outcomes. Our work spans cross-functional partnership, scalable programs and operational excellence in support of Zillow’s mission. We bring deep experience working across diverse teams in a dynamic, high-growth environment, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution to drive meaningful business impact. We are seeking an experienced professional to support our workforce expansion in India.

Role Summary We are recruiting a top-performing Senior Network Engineer to serve as the technical owner for Zillow’s on-prem network and employee access infrastructure. This role owns physical and logical on-prem network architecture, corporate LAN/WAN and Wi-Fi, the current Cisco SSL client VPN, and has a meaningful technical stake in the design and deployment of next-generation Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) architectures. The engineer will work in close partnership with engineers across a range of experience levels as part of a team that collectively owns corporate infrastructure outcomes. This role provides technical leadership through hands-on engineering, collaboration, and influence—such as participating in design reviews, pairing on complex work, and leading incident response—while creating intentional opportunities to mentor and uplift more junior engineers. This mentorship is delivered through day-to-day engineering practices and shared problem-solving, not people management.  This is a senior individual contributor role with significant autonomy, influence, and accountability, but no people management. This role has been categorized as an Office position. “Office” employees regularly work at the Zillow India office for approximately 80 to 100 percent of their time each month. Employees must live within a reasonable commuting distance of the office. Zillow has not defined a reasonable distance, and expects employees will use judgment in determining this for themselves and understand the implications re: time commitment and cost of daily commute. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role are eligible for incentive compensation subject to applicable laws and relevant Zillow policies. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location.

Primary Responsibilities Own the architecture, standards, and lifecycle of on-prem network infrastructure across Zillow offices Design, operate, and evolve LAN, WAN, and Wi-Fi networks Lead equipment refreshes, obsolescence management, and vendor strategy Design networking for new office builds, expansions, and relocations Own Wi-Fi architecture, performance, and user experience Own the Cisco SSL client VPN platform, including reliability, security, and user experience Ensure secure and dependable employee remote access Partner with endpoint, identity, and security teams on the design and rollout of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Help guide architectural decisions during the transition from VPN-centric access to Zero Trust models Serve as senior escalation for complex incidents and outages Develop and maintain documentation, standards, diagrams, and runbooks Mentor and uplift junior engineers through technical leadership and collaboration Make pragmatic, cost-conscious decisions that balance reliability, security, and sustainability. Get to know us At Zillow, we’re reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through