Zillow
Principal Software Development Engineer, Full Stack
$182K–$306K
Remote-USA · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
About the job
Provides technical leadership for Zillow Rentals’ internal tooling and data products, shaping architecture and delivering scalable web applications, services, and data capabilities.
What you'll do
- Lead architecture and technical direction for complex, high-scale web applications and multi-team initiatives.
- Partner with product and cross-functional teams to turn business objectives into engineering plans and roadmaps.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers and champion engineering quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and operations.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production web applications, with significant front-end and back-end experience.
- Track record leading technical design and delivery of complex, high-scale systems or platforms involving multiple teams and services.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing engineering practices and standards across teams in an agile, product-focused environment.
Pay
$191,300.00 - $305,700.00 USD annually (base salary); $181,800.00 - $290,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
web applications, APIs, data stores, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD
AI focus
The team delivers AI enablement solutions; the posting does not specify AI-focused duties for this role.
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