Principal Product Manager, Platform Engineering

Zillow

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Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$178,300–$284,700 / yr
Posted
15 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $207k
This role $232k
$144k most similar roles pay here $300k

This role pays more than 71% of similar roles. Most pay $172,931–$240,150 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $232k versus about $207k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Zillow

Zillow Group is a leading real estate and rental marketplace providing consumers with data, tools, and services to find, buy, sell, rent, and finance homes, and connecting buyers with agents and lenders. Industry: Real Estate Technology & Marketplace

Zillow currently has 23 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $148,600–$237,400 across 23 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Principal Product Manager, Platform Engineering

Principal Product Manager, Platform Engineering joins the Platform Engineering team to oversee the infrastructure supporting every engineer at Zillow. This role focuses on transitioning infrastructure operations into a platform-as-a-product model by replacing manual provisioning with golden paths, self-service tools, and API-first interfaces. You will define product strategy for core capabilities including compute, runtime, networking, databases, secrets, identity, and delivery tooling. Key responsibilities include driving adoption across thousands of services, establishing measurement models for platform impact, and designing capabilities specifically for AI agents and automated workflows. The ideal candidate possesses technical fluency in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, container orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines. You will partner with engineering leaders to refine discovery and prioritization while ensuring a coherent developer experience across Data Platform, Developer Experience, and Security teams to solve complex operational challenges within the internal infrastructure ecosystem.

What does a Product Manager earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 95 postings across 31 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define the product strategy for platform capabilities to unify infrastructure roadmaps into a coherent direction.
  • Design "golden paths" that make supported engineering workflows the fastest and easiest options for developers.
  • Drive adoption of platform standards across independent teams using defaults, deprecation paths, and enablement mechanisms.
  • Establish how applications and AI agents consume platform capabilities through automated or human-approved pathways.
  • Create a measurement model to track platform success via adoption metrics, onboarding time, and cost-to-serve analysis.
  • Partner with engineering leaders to improve discovery, requirements gathering, and roadmap prioritization across six teams.
  • Coordinate with Data Platform, Developer Experience, and Security teams to ensure a consistent internal developer experience.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of product management experience including building internal platforms, infrastructure, or developer tooling for multiple teams.
  • Experience managing a platform portfolio with multiple interdependent capabilities and different customer lifecycles.
  • Strong technical fluency in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, compute/container orchestration, networking, databases, identity, secrets, and CI/CD.
  • Proven track record of driving adoption of platform standards across teams without direct reporting relationships.
  • Experience leading complex migrations at scale, including the full retirement of legacy systems.
  • Ability to operate in ambiguity and impose structure on complex, cross-functional infrastructure initiatives.
  • Experience coaching engineering leaders to improve product discovery, requirements, and outcome definition.
  • Familiarity with designing platform capabilities for AI agents as consumers (preferred).

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