Principal Software Development Engineer - Remote Eligible

Principal Engineer

The Connections Platform team at Zillow builds and supports platforms that connect customers with their move teams throughout the home-buying journey. Our work powers lead management, communication, and pre-connection experiences across Zillow's services, helping ensure every customer has a seamless, personalized experience. We focus on scalable, reliable, and secure solutions that enable other teams to solve problems efficiently and innovate quickly, all while enhancing reliability and security.

As a Principal Engineer on the Connections Platform team, you will drive technical strategy and deliver solutions that impact multiple teams and organizations. You will collaborate with leaders across Zillow, shape architectural decisions, and mentor engineers. Your work will help build flexible, maintainable, and secure systems that scale with Zillow's evolving needs, directly influencing the future of the home-buying experience.

As a Principal Software Development Engineer, You Will Get To

• Lead the design and implementation of complex, cross-team systems
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to align on technical strategies
• Build secure, reliable, and maintainable platforms that support lead management and communication
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences
• Drive operational excellence by proactively identifying and resolving system issues
• Research and pioneer new technologies to improve platform capabilities
• Ensure solutions are scalable and adaptable to business needs

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 you're 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. We're 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.

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.