# Principal Software Development Engineer, Design Systems (Web)

About the team Zillow Experience Design (ZxD) shapes how people discover, buy, sell, and rent homes. Within ZxD, Design Foundations creates and scales the systems, standards, and tools that help product teams build high-quality, consistent, and accessible experiences across Zillow.Design Foundations brings together design systems, digital accessibility, brand and visual language, content standards, and the AI-enabled tools increasingly used by Product, Design, and Engineering teams to design and build products. Zillow’s design systems, known internally as Constellation, span Web, iOS, Android, and Email. They give teams the shared components, patterns, and guidance they need to build with greater consistency, accessibility, and efficiency. About the role We’re hiring a Principal Software Development Engineer to be the technical owner of Constellation Web. You’ll set the technical direction for how the system evolves and keep it a healthy, reliable foundation for more than 300 codebases across Zillow, Trulia, StreetEasy, and HotPads, ultimately shaping how millions of people experience these products. Zillow is accelerating AI-native product development. Your work will shape how Con

- **Id**: 4227485
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zillow-principal-software-development-engineer-design-systems-web>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T08:32:54Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9704
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Property Management, PropTech, Real Estate Brokerage, Mortgage Lending & Brokers

## Company

- **Id**: 7010
- **Name**: Zillow
- **Domain**: zillow.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zillow>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 97
- **Open postings**: 52
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.288
- **Repost share**: 0.058
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 20
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 195600
- **Max**: 312400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 312400

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Tailwind CSS** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Next.js** — Optional: yes
- **React Aria** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T08:32:54Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 94 · green card filings: 26; Filings 12m: 94

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T11:35:04Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 312400
- **Is top pay**: yes

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