Hiring: Principal Product Manager, Platform Engineering Company: Zillow Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:17:20 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : CI/CD About the job Experience: •8+ years of product management experience, including substantial time building internal platforms, infrastructure, or developer tooling used by multiple teams across organizational boundaries Required Skills: •Your scope spans the full platform surface — though the areas you drive most directly will be shaped by where the leverage is greatest as near-term product needs across the teams stabilize. At this level, you will define the operating model other teams plan and build within, not just execute within it yourself. •Get To Own platform strategy across Platform Engineering's portfolio, turning independently run infrastructure roadmaps into a coherent product direction with explicit investment tradeoffs •Define the golden paths for how engineers build at Zillow, designing the platform so the supported path is the fastest one and unsupported patterns are difficult to fall into •Drive adoption and migration outcomes across teams with no reporting relationship to you, using defaults, deprecation paths, and enablement mechanisms that produce measurable change in how teams build •Establish how platform success is measured — adoption, onboarding time, satisfaction, and key customer outcomes — and build the underlying value model of what capabilities cost to serve and what they are worth •Deepen the product operating model across six engineering teams, partnering with the engineering leaders who carry product responsibility to strengthen discovery, requirements, and outcome definition •Partner closely with Data Platform, Developer Experience, and Security teams to keep the internal developer experience coherent and resolve ownership gaps between organizations •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. Qualifications: •Strong technical fluency in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems, including compute and container orchestration, networking, databases, identity and secrets, and CI/CD, sufficient to reason about architectural tradeoffs alongside senior engineers rather than gather requirements from them •Proven track record driving adoption of platform standards across teams you do not manage, using defaults, deprecation paths, and mechanisms that drove measurable change in behavior •Able to operate in ambiguity and impose structure on complex, cross-functional infrastructure initiatives where scope is undefined and precedent is limited •Operational familiarity with designing platform capabilities for AI agents as consumers, including where automated workflows require human approval and how automated paths are verified •Clear, structured communicator who can hold a coherent platform narrative across engineering, adjacent platform teams, and executive stakeholders •Here at Zillow, we value the experience and perspective of candidates with non-traditional backgrounds. We encourage you to apply if you have transferable skills or related experiences. •How we work is a key part of that transformation. Through Cloud HQ, our strategic approach to distributed work, most employees have the flexibility to work from wherever they’re most productive—enabling us to move fast, stay connected and deliver on our people promise. •Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the U.S. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2026, and included on TIME’s America’s Best Companies 2026 list, reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow. •No matter where you sit in the organization, your work will help drive innovation, support our customers, and move the industry—and your career—forward, together. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!