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Zillow

Online real estate platform with valuations

Information Security Cyber Defense Incident Responder

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
No salary listed
Senior
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
In PersonOffice role: employees work at the Zillow India office approximately 80–100% of each month and must live within reasonable commuting distance.
CybersecuritySecurity Operations & Incident Response

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 7 years of professional experience in cybersecurity, including at least 4 years focused on security incident response, or equivalent depth in hands-on security operations.
  • Demonstrated history of independently leading complex, multi-day security investigations and driving difficult incidents to resolution.
  • Deep knowledge of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures and the ability to apply the MITRE ATT&CK framework to real-world investigations across the full attack lifecycle.
  • Hands-on AWS security investigation expertise, including CloudTrail, GuardDuty, VPC Flow Logs, S3 access logs, IAM, and Lambda, with experience containing and remediating cloud-based incidents.
  • Proficiency with endpoint detection and response tools such as CrowdStrike, security information and event management platforms such as Exabeam and Splunk, and cloud security tooling such as Wiz and AWS Security Hub.
  • Advanced understanding of Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems and their forensic artifacts, including process trees, registry, logs, memory, and disk.
  • Experience investigating identity-based attacks, including Okta and Active Directory attacks, OAuth abuse, single sign-on attacks, and multi-factor authentication bypass techniques.
  • Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for investigative automation, tooling, and rapid response workflows.
  • Ability to write clear executive summaries of complex incidents and confidently present findings to non-technical leadership.
  • Ability to make sound, independent decisions in high-pressure, ambiguous, and time-sensitive situations without requiring escalation for direction.
Responsibilities
  • Serve as the primary technical lead on complex, high-severity security incidents, owning investigations from initial detection through containment, remediation, and post-mortem.
  • Command cross-functional incident response efforts by establishing clear ownership, priorities, and next steps across Engineering, IT, Legal, Privacy, and other stakeholders.
  • Independently or with a team scope and investigate security events, including supply chain attacks, identity attacks, SaaS platform attacks, cloud intrusions, and other threats as needed.
  • Lead incident response in cloud environments by scoping attacker access, driving containment across multi-account infrastructure, and investigating EC2, IAM, S3, and supply chain events.
  • Participate in on-call response for critical security incidents, making timely and sound decisions without requiring escalation for direction.
  • Conduct forensic analysis of compromised systems across Linux, macOS, Windows, and cloud environments, preserving evidence and documenting decisions.
  • Author thorough post-incident reports and root cause analyses, translating technical findings into clear, actionable insights for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Handle the security operations center alert queue and routine tickets as needed, providing senior-level judgment on triage and escalation decisions.
  • Investigate security alerts from security information and event management platforms, endpoint detection and response tools, cloud security platforms, and threat intelligence feeds; triage, prioritize, and escalate them.
  • Perform deep-dive investigations across host, network, identity, and cloud evidence sources.
  • Conduct proactive threat hunting based on threat intelligence, behavioral anomalies, and emerging attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures.
  • Develop and refine detection logic with detection engineering, converting incident learnings into improved coverage and reduced false positive rates.
  • Mentor and upskill junior and mid-level analysts through coaching, tabletop exercises, and collaborative incident response work.
  • Own and maintain incident response playbooks, runbooks, and response procedures, keeping them current with the evolving threat landscape.
  • Drive continuous improvement to the cyber defense program through lessons learned, process automation, tooling enhancements, and post-incident follow-through.
  • Partner with cloud and platform engineering on containment actions and long-term security hardening recommendations.
  • Represent Cyber Defense in cross-functional discussions, helping partner teams understand security risk and prioritize effective remediation.
Desired Qualifications
  • Background in IT systems administration, software engineering, or DevOps.
  • Experience with security orchestration, automation, and response platforms, threat intelligence tooling, or automated response workflows.
  • Relevant certifications such as GCIH, GCFE, GCFA, CISSP, GCFR, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, or AWS Security.

About the company

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Zillow

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Zillow runs a real estate platform that helps people buy, sell, rent, and finance homes. It combines property listings with mortgage services and advertising, earning revenue from ads, leads for real estate agents, and mortgage origination. Its core product uses technology and the Zestimate to estimate home values and connect users with agents, lenders, and listings through an integrated online experience. Unlike services that focus on a single part of the market, Zillow offers a broad ecosystem that spans listings, valuations, and financing in one place, supported by data and network effects from a large user base. The company’s goal is to make moving to a new home easier by simplifying transactions and enabling users to complete more steps online, from search to financing to closing.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

2005

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What believers are saying

  • Q2 2026 revenue rose 18% to $772 million, with $176 million Adjusted EBITDA.
  • Rentals revenue climbed 31% and mortgages revenue jumped 75% year over year in Q2.
  • Preview listings now appear on Realtor.com and RealScout, widening distribution fast.

What critics are saying

  • The September 15, 2026 MRED ruling sent Zillow's Chicago antitrust claims to arbitration.
  • FTC settlement on August 24, 2026 proves regulators still police Zillow's dealmaking aggressively.
  • August 2026 layoffs cut over 500 employees, signaling pressure to sustain growth without bloat.

What makes Zillow unique

  • Zillow Preview launched March 2026, giving early listing access across Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com.
  • Zillow still owns the widest consumer audience, with 239 million monthly unique visitors in Q2.
  • Its product stack spans for-sale, rentals, mortgages, and agent software under one brand.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Parental Leave
  • Family Planning Benefits
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Paid Vacation
  • Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

-11%

1 year growth

-11%

2 year growth

-11%
Yahoo Finance
Oct 23rd, 2026
Zillow stock needs a 480% gain to regain its $203.79 peak, now at $35.14

Zillow Group (ZG) shares closed at $35.14, 82.8% below their February 2021 high of $203.79. Returning to that peak would take a 479.9% gain, or 79.7% a year over three years. The stock has never gained 480% in any three-year period in the past 10 years, based on 1,757 rolling windows. Holders who bought at the high have waited 5.7 years; the S&P 500 is up 94.9% over that time. The business has changed. Revenue for the twelve months to June 2026 was $2,810 million, 15.9% below 2020's $3,340 million. Zillow now turns a profit, with net income of $55.0 million against a loss of $162 million in 2020. The stock trades at 2.8 times yearly sales.

The Rialto Consultancy Ltd
Oct 19th, 2026
Tinder's new CEO asked employees a simple question about success. Their answers exposed a bigger problem.

Tinder's new CEO asked employees a simple question about success. Their answers exposed a bigger problem. 19th Oct 2026 | 01:30pm When Spencer Rascoff became CEO of Match Group in February 2025, and CEO of Tinder in July of that year, he inherited a dating empire whose flagship app had spent more than a decade relying on the same formula that made it famous. Tinder's swipe-left, swipe-right experience had revolutionized online dating, but the company had struggled to keep pace with changing consumer expectations. In 2024, Tinder's paying user base declined 7% while revenue grew just 1%. "In a lot of ways Tinder had lost product market fit with its users because it hadn't innovated," Rascoff told me recently. The company, he acknowledged, had "rested on its laurels for a long time." Rascoff, who previously led Zillow, set out to revive Tinder's culture of innovation. One of his first moves was to ask employees a deceptively simple question about what success looked like. He recalls receiving blank stares. Those who offered answers frequently pointed to quarterly profitability targets promised to Wall Street. Even designers, product managers, and software engineers were measuring success against financial goals that offered little direction for improving the dating experience. The disconnect exposed a fundamental management problem. Tinder's mission is to help people form connections, yet the employees building its product lacked a shared measure of whether they were delivering on that promise. Rascoff introduced a companywide metric called "sparks," which tracks conversations between matched users that reach at least six back-and-forth exchanges. Tinder's analysis of millions of messages suggested that conversations reaching that threshold were more likely to develop into flirting and plans to meet in person. By focusing employees on sparks, Rascoff gave teams a measurable customer outcome to work toward, from improving matchmaking recommendations to helping users start better conversations. He also pushed employees to consider the different needs of Tinder's users through two personas, Abby the anxious romantic and Jasmine the joyful butterfly. That customer focus has helped inform a broader reinvention of the app, including double dates that make meeting strangers less intimidating, real-world events where users can discover activities and connect with fellow attendees, and AI-powered recommendations that learn more quickly from users' preferences. AI is also accelerating how quickly Tinder can introduce those features. Rascoff says the company is shipping 70% more code than a year earlier. An events product conceived in January launched in Los Angeles just eight weeks later, a process he estimates would previously have taken six to 12 months. Rascoff says the changes are producing results, with matches up 14% year-over-year and more users reaching the spark threshold. Yet Tinder has struggled to translate that momentum into sustained business growth. In the second quarter, revenue declined 1% to roughly $457 million, its paying user base fell 5% to 8.5 million, and daily active users dropped 4%. For Rascoff, the current challenge is turning a highly profitable but stagnant business into one that can grow again. Watch the full video on how dating apps are betting on AI to attract new users, improve matchmaking, and ultimately drive revenue growth. This story was originally featured on Fortune.com

Headline USA
Oct 18th, 2026
Booker, Warren call for FTC investigation into online real estate companies.

Booker, Warren call for FTC investigation into online real estate companies. They asked the agency to investigate how real estate websites connect buyers with agents and mortgage lenders, and how brokerages handle private home listings. October 18, 2026 (Tom Joyce, The Center Square) U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren want the Federal Trade Commission to look at whether online real estate companies use deceptive practices that raise homebuying costs. Booker, D-N.J., and Warren, D-Mass., sent a letter to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson this week. They asked the agency to investigate how real estate websites connect buyers with agents and mortgage lenders, and how brokerages handle private home listings. "We urge you to now investigate anticompetitive and deceptive practices in the home-buying market, using every enforcement tool available to restore competition to the entire online real estate marketplace," the senators wrote. It comes as U.S. Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., had similar concerns. In June, he asked Ferguson to investigate online agent referrals and mortgage lending practices, HousingWire reported. The senators found three practices they want the FTC to investigate. First, they said buyers who click a website's "contact agent" button may reach an agent who pays the website part of the sales commission rather than the agent selling the home. The senators say that can raise costs without the buyer even knowing. "Platforms and agents do not disclose these commission-sharing arrangements, leaving buyers unaware that they are agreeing to pay inflated prices to cover the platform's revenue cut," they wrote. Second, the senators said agents often must refer buyers to lenders tied to the websites. Those lenders often aren't upfront about their financial incentives and charge higher rates and offer worse loan terms. Also, they criticized brokerages that have private home listings, showing homes to a select few buyers before making listings public. The senators said doing this hurts prospective homebuyers and sellers. The sellers can get fewer offers when fewer people know their home is for sale. Zillow has denied that these services hurt buyers. Responding to the lawsuit, Zillow said buyers can choose their own agents and lenders. Zillow added that every home listing lets buyers directly contact the listing agent. "Buyers are never required to work with that agent and remain free to choose anyone they prefer," Zillow wrote. The senators also cited the FTC's rental advertising case against Zillow and Redfin. The FTC accused Zillow of paying Redfin $100 million to stop competing in rental advertising. An August settlement forced Redfin to restart that business and invest millions in it. Booker and Warren want similar FTC action in the home sales market. They said high housing costs are another reason the FTC should investigate. They noted recent National Association of Realtors figures showing the median existing-home price is now about $440,600 and the median first-time homebuyer age is 40. The senators said higher fees and mortgage rates make buying a home harder. They said those costs are even worse when buyers add them to their mortgages and pay interest on them. "Younger and first-time homebuyers are most harmed by these practices," they wrote. "They are making the largest financial transaction of their lives without knowing the full picture."

VentureBeat
Oct 15th, 2026
Homa raises $5 million to redefine homebuying with AI.

Homa raises $5 million to redefine homebuying with AI. 5:05 am, PT, October 15, 2026 Seed funding powers California expansion and in-platform mortgage lending AUSTIN, Texas-(BUSINESS WIRE)-October 15, 2026- Homa, the AI platform reinventing how Americans buy homes while returning up to 2% of the purchase price to buyers at closing, has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Quiet Capital, with participation from Restive Ventures and Cambrian Ventures. The round funds expansion across California and the launch of mortgage lending inside the platform. Homa is now available statewide in California (alongside Florida and Texas), covering roughly 95 million Americans. Buyers can search, tour, negotiate, close, and secure a mortgage in one place. The company, which went viral earlier this year with the first AI closings in the U.S., recorded its strongest month in September. Quiet Capital, an early investor in OpenAI and Reddit, led the round alongside fintech-focused Restive Ventures and Cambrian Ventures. Co-founder and CEO Arman Javaherian, a former senior director at Zillow, said the traditional process has barely changed in 40 years. "You tour on someone else's schedule, you take advice from someone paid more when you spend more, and you hand over tens of thousands of dollars at the closing table for work you largely did yourself," he said. "We built Homa so buyers get better information, better representation, and serious money back that can dramatically reduce the lifetime cost of a mortgage and boost their purchasing power." Homa is a licensed brokerage whose AI is trained on state-specific law, property data, and real-estate coursework. It provides pricing insight, disclosures, comps, risk analysis, and bargaining-power scoring before an offer. Local specialists handle tours on the buyer's schedule for a flat fee. Offers are written and negotiated by in-house brokers - one per state - each with more than a decade of experience and hundreds of closed transactions. On deals where the seller offers a buyer-broker commission of up to 3%, Homa keeps 1% and credits the remainder (typically about 2%) back to the buyer. Credits have averaged more than $10,000 and exceed $40,000 on higher-priced homes. Buyers can apply the credit to a rate buydown, closing costs, or the purchase price. The new mortgage feature lets buyers shop for a loan inside Homa instead of being handed off to an outside lender. When the credit and loan sit in the same file, the credit can fund a rate buydown that lowers the mortgage rate by as much as 0.75%, compounding savings over the life of the loan. Integrating brokerage and lending also reduces delays from financing issues and poor coordination. "Buying a home is the biggest financial decision most people will ever make, and the two parties who decide whether it goes smoothly - the brokerage and the lender - are almost always separate businesses with no incentive to coordinate well," said Michael Bloch, Partner at Quiet Capital. "Homa is the only consumer company we have seen that runs both sides and hands the customer real money back. The expansion to California coupled with the new mortgage feature is an inflection point on Homa's path to changing the economics of homebuying in America." Homa timed the California launch for surging demand in the state's largest metros. It has been live in Florida since 2025, expanded to Texas in June 2026, and soft-launched California on September 1. Capital will also support a mobile app later this year. "California buyers do their own research, and they are not looking for someone to unlock a door and mark it up by 3%," Javaherian added. "What they actually need is real MLS access, a licensed broker who negotiates for a living, financing that is part of the offer strategy rather than an afterthought, and a credit large enough to increase their purchasing power." Homa was co-founded by Javaherian and Federico Campeotto, a computer scientist with a Ph.D. specializing in artificial intelligence. It is the only end-to-end platform of its kind and has already returned millions of dollars to buyers in Texas and Florida. About Homa Homa is the first AI-powered homebuying platform and licensed brokerage to take buyers through search, analysis, touring, offer, financing, and closing in one place, then credit most of the buyer-side commission back to them. Available in California, Florida, and Texas. Learn more at www.tryhoma.com.

Ohsem.me
Oct 5th, 2026
Boris Mizhen happy to be at the NYC Real Estate Tech Week.

Boris Mizhen happy to be at the NYC Real Estate Tech Week. 05/10/2026 "I'm honored to be invited to this exciting event and to examine all the real estate and technology fields," said Boris Mizhen. New York, NY, United States, October 5, 2026 - Boris Mizhen, a real estate developer with experience in the industry, was invited to participate in New York City Real Estate Tech Week, a multi-event program focused on innovation and emerging technologies in the real estate sector. Held in New York City, the event brought together technology companies, real estate professionals, industry organizations, and entrepreneurs to examine developments shaping the future of the property market. Organized and co-promoted by technology accelerator MetaProp NYC and its network of partners, including the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), and Zillow, the week featured a series of 10 events highlighting emerging technologies and real estate-focused startups. Participating organizations included the Real Estate Board of New York, Zillow Group, CRE // Tech, the Urban Land Institute, the Industrial & Office Real Estate Brokers Association, the New York City Real Estate Tech Meetup, and NAIOP. Boris Mizhen is considered invaluable to developers within the industry. In addition to his investments in New York City properties, he has headed marketing technology firms staffed by highly trained and experienced professionals. As a combination of public and invitation-only events, the NYC Real Estate Tech Week featured investors and executives from the residential and commercial real estate communities. Among the invited speakers and panelists were a number of local technology startups, including Radiator Labs, Edenworks, and The Square Foot. Topics of discussion were Sustainability and Security; Digital Disruption; How Tech Tsunami Disrupts the CRE Industry; and How to Build Data-Driven Startups in Real Estate. "I'm honored to be invited to this exciting event and to examine all the real estate and technology fields," said Boris Mizhen. "With all the new developments and rapid innovations in recent years, an event like this is essential to remain informed. It has brought in some of the key players in New York City's real estate market, making it an invaluable opportunity for experienced real estate developers to meet one another." Boris Mizhen has long been an advocate for the increasing use of technology in the real estate industry, which is no surprise given his well-known admiration of futurists such as Elon Musk and Steve Jobs. In addition to his work as a real estate developer, Mizhen is a prominent philanthropist. Through the Boris Mizhen Family Trust, he has contributed to many noteworthy non-profit organizations, including the Jewish Foundation's PACE Fund (Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment Fund) and the Chabad of Shoreline's Jacob Fund. The charities provide food for local families in need through "gift cards" that are honored by area supermarkets. Boris Mizhen - Property Developer and Philanthropist: http://borismizhennews.com Boris Mizhen (@bmizhen) - Twitter: https://twitter.com/bmizhen Boris Mizhen - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bmizhen Contact Info: Name: Boris Mizhen Email: Send Email Organization: BorisMizhenNews.com Website: http://borismizhennews.com Release ID: 89205157 If you detect any issues, problems, or errors in this press release content, kindly contact [email protected] to notify Ohsem.me (it is important to note that this email is the authorized channel for such matters, sending multiple emails to multiple addresses does not necessarily help expedite your request). Ohsem.me will respond and rectify the situation in the next 8 hours.