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Zillow

Principal Product Manager, Platform Engineering

$169K–$285K

Remote-USA · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026

Experience
8+ years of product management experience.

About the job

Owns product strategy and adoption for Zillow’s internal engineering platform, defining golden paths, migration priorities, and measurable platform value across engineering teams.

What you'll do

  • Set a coherent strategy and roadmap across Platform Engineering capabilities, balancing investment and customer needs.
  • Drive adoption of supported platform paths and large-scale migrations across teams, using defaults, deprecation, and enablement.
  • Define platform success measures and AI-agent workflows, including when human approval is required.

What they ask for

  • 8+ years of product management experience, including substantial work on internal platforms, infrastructure, or developer tooling used across teams.
  • Experience owning and prioritizing a portfolio of interdependent platform capabilities.
  • Strong technical fluency in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems, including compute and container orchestration, networking, databases, identity and secrets, and CI/CD.
  • Proven adoption of platform standards across teams outside your reporting line, and experience leading complex migrations at scale, including retiring replaced systems.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with designing platform capabilities for AI agents, including human approval and verification of automated workflows.

Pay

$178,300.00 - $284,700.00 annually (base salary); $169,300.00 - $270,500.00 annually (base salary)

Tools

cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, compute, container orchestration, networking, databases, identity and secrets, CI/CD

AI focus

Define how AI agents consume platform capabilities and which workflows are agent-driven, deterministic, or require human approval.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 6, 2026 (UTC)