As a Principal Software Development Engineer, you will play a pivotal role within Rich Media’s mission that enables large forward-looking work that unlocks wins across multiple teams. Home Capture team is the first stop along the pathway to better and more innovative experiences, providing real estate photographers and related systems the infrastructure and solutions they need to best capture the data required to connect and build these experiences.
In this role, you will oversee larger-scoped projects that span across teams and partner orgs. Your most significant impact will stem from your ability to foresee future problems and orchestrate solutions, strategize across teams, and lead technical projects that span multiple teams/orgs in addition to your coding contributions.
You Will Get To:Foresee technical problems that the teams are not yet facing and propose corrective actions
Innovate new solutions that balance implementation time, quality, observability, scalability, and maintainability.
Strategize future solutions that enable Rich Media solutions to efficiently scale
Lead technical service solutions spanning multiple teams
Mentor engineers within and outside the team
Oversee key performance indicators and ensure proper visibility
7+ years of backend engineering experience
Proactively collaborates across teams to communicate strategy and decisions
Communication at technical, product strategy, and leadership levels
Experience in creating technical software architecture designs
Experience balancing delivering quality code with delivering experiences on a deadline
Mentors senior engineers to develop independent technical leadership
Defines and evolves platform-wide architectural standards, paved-road libraries, and testing/monitoring practices to ensure scalability and maintainability.
Always seeking opportunities to identify and improve inefficiencies in existing systems
Experience with cloud services (AWS Preferred)
Champion quality and stability of services
Knowledgeable of the software development lifecycle including code reviews testing, and operations
Excels at driving large features from design to implementation
Optional but preferred:
Experience working closely with other platform engineers in mobile, web, ML, CV.
Experience with photography, imaging, computer graphics
Experience in Go (formerly Golang)
Experience with AWS
Experience with Kafka or other data streaming pipelines
At Zillow, we’re reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through their careers. As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., we help customers navigate buying, selling, financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. Whether you're working in tech, sales, operations, or design, you’ll be part of a company that's reshaping an industry and helping more people make home a reality.
Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the country. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2025, and included on the PEOPLE Companies That Care® 2025 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.
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. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local law.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Join our mission to give the people power to unlock life’s next chapter. Our homes are the heartbeat of our lives, and we believe that finding a home shouldn’t be so hard in today’s always-on world. That’s why we’re reimagining the traditional rules of real estate to make it easier than ever to move from one home to the next. Our journey began nearly 15 years ago with a handful of employees and one big idea: to make it radically easier for people to move. We began by helping people understand and track their homes with the Zestimate, our proprietary algorithm, and then with advanced technology and valuable connections with real estate professionals. Today, Zillow has become a household name. People are more likely to search for “Zillow” than “real estate,” and our name is often used as a verb. While other industries have ushered in a new era of convenience, the time for seamless and convenient real estate experience is now. This is our next chapter as a company. We’re looking for smart, passionate adventurers to join us as we reimagine the real estate transaction and change the way people buy, sell, rent and finance their homes.
