Software Engineer III

About the role

Zuora helps businesses grow smarter and adapt faster through its platform for subscription and usage-based pricing, AI-driven offerings, and predictable, recurring revenue. This role is based in Foster City, CA, following a hybrid work model with 3 days of onsite work per week.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop flexible, high-performance backend services and user-facing applications enabling deep product customization and scalability.
• Build end-to-end product capabilities across frontend and backend systems, focusing on strong engineering fundamentals and product quality.
• Partner closely with Data Science, Product, UX, Platform, and Partner teams to productionize models, integrate AI/ML capabilities, and scale intelligent systems reliably.
• Help bridge experimentation and production by building APIs, services, pipelines, and tooling needed to deploy, monitor, and evolve data science solutions in real-world applications.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development velocity, code quality, and team productivity.
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code, adhering to best engineering practices and continuous improvement.
• Build products that are intuitive, elegant, and user-focused, solving real problems for modern revenue teams.

Requirements

• B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Engineering or equivalent discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in full-stack software development.
• Hands-on expertise in a modern programming language (Java preferred).
• Strong understanding of cloud-based APIs (preferably AWS).
• Experience with microservices architecture (Spring Boot a plus).
• Solid knowledge of relational databases (Postgres, SQL, AWS RDS).
• Proven debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Curiosity and passion for exploring new technologies and AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Cursor, Lovable).
• Experience with agentic model architectures and RAG-based system implementation is a strong advantage.
• Knowledge of Python and data modeling is a strong plus.

Skills

• Java
• Python
• Spring
• Rest API
• Microservices
• Kafka
• Spark
• NodeJS
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• ReactJS
• TypeScript
• Postgres

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, variable bonus and performance-based reward opportunities, and retirement programs.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous, flexible time off, plus paid holidays, wellness days, and a company-wide year-end break.
• Paid parental leave (including fully paid leave for eligible ZEOs, subject to local policy).
• Learning & development stipend to support ongoing growth.
• Opportunities to volunteer and give back, including charitable donation matching where available.
• Mental wellbeing resources and support.