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Senior Principal Software Engineer

Zuora
Redwood City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 2 Mar 2026
💰 $312,900/yr($213,512/yr$312,900/yr)

About the role

Zuora, Inc. seeks Senior Principal Software Engineer to:

 

  • Leads or significantly contributes to medium-to-large feature development releases.
  • Leads design and development tasks following considerations of scale, uncertainty, trade-off analysis, and dependencies.
  • Participates in the design review process, seeking and providing feedback.
  • Contributes to defining strategic direction, planning the roadmap, escalating issues, and synthesizing feedback to ensure team success.
  • Collaborates with stakeholders including customers, product managers, cross-functional partners and external partners regarding design and development of product.

 

Position requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Information Technology or Systems, or a related field, followed by 7 years of experience as a Software Engineer, or a related occupation.

 

Experience must include 7 years of experience with each of the following:

 

  1. Design and development of a centralized metadata repository.
  2. Architecting and implementing global search services for billing accounts, products, subscriptions, and invoices.
  3. Overseeing application build system migration for the payments industry.
  4. Java, Spring Boot, and MySQL.
  5. Elastisearch.
  6. Designing, building, and maintaining ETL pipelines that process large-scale data volumes (terabytes to petabytes) in production environments.
  7. Kafka and ETL.
  8. Maven, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD.
  9. Working with cloud platforms including AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.

 

Job Location: Redwood City, CA 

 

 

Apply online at https://www.zuora.com/careers/ or send resume via email to recruitment_gc@zuora.com with requisition number 1095 in the subject line. 

 

 

 

 

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The base pay details represent the annualized salary range for the posted position. While we share a comprehensive range, a candidate’s final base salary will fall within these guidelines and will be determined based on multiple factors including but not limited to: qualifications of the candidate, job related knowledge, prior related experience, specific and unique skills, the location of the role, internal equity and internal budget. Base pay is only one element of Zuora’s Total Rewards Package. Additional elements may also include bonus/variable compensation, equity and comprehensive benefits, more details found here.

Base Pay Details$213,512$312,900 USD

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