Software Engineer III

About Zuora

Zuora helps businesses grow smarter and adapt faster through its platform for subscriptions and usage-based pricing. Founded in 2006, Zuora has been a leader in the Subscription Economy, now evolving to support modern business models and AI-driven offerings.

The Opportunity

Design and develop flexible, high-performance backend services and user-facing applications that enable 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, following strong software engineering practices and a mindset of continuous improvement. Build products that are intuitive, elegant, and user-focused, solving real problems for modern revenue teams.

About You

• 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

Our Tech Stack

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

About the Team

The AI Core team is building the next generation of intelligent product capabilities at Zuora. We focus on creating scalable, AI-ready systems that enable agentic workflows, model-driven experiences, RAG-based solutions, and extensible platform services across our products. Our team partners closely with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to design and deliver production-grade AI systems, from backend services and APIs to agentic model development, RAG system implementation, orchestration, integration, and scalable deployment patterns. We're on a multi-year journey to build a next-generation, microservices-based architecture that is modular, extensible, and designed to support the future of AI-powered revenue operations.

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

About the Role

This role is based in our Foster City, CA office and follows a hybrid work model. Team members are expected to work onsite three days per week to foster collaboration, innovation, and team connectivity. This is not a fully remote position.

Base Pay Details

$146,500—$201,450 USD