Senior Principal Software Engineer - Billing

Zuora, Inc. seeks Senior Principal Software Engineer - Billing to:

• Lead large, strategic, and cross-functional feature releases across subscription management, order services, and billing domains, often spanning multiple teams and engineering areas.

• Refactor and modernize complex legacy billing codebases to high-performance, scalable microservices-based architectures.

• Define optimized data models, leverage in-memory processing, and ensure systems can handle large-scale enterprise transaction volumes with low-latency APIs.

• Actively design, implement, and review production-grade code in Java, Kotlin, and related technologies. You will be expected to code daily and lead by example.

• Act as the primary architect for major projects, providing design direction, conducting cross-team reviews, and ensuring alignment with long-term technical strategy.

• Champion engineering excellence in clean coding, testing, performance optimization, and maintainability across the organization. Coach and mentor engineers, fostering technical growth and ensuring consistent high quality delivery.

Position requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electronic Engineering, Information Systems or Technology, or related field followed by 7 years of experience in a software engineer, or related position.  Position requires 5 years of experience with each of the following:

• Developing and delivering enterprise SaaS software at scale.

• Designing, building, and maintaining billing and subscription management software.

• Maintaining, refactoring and modernizing legacy enterprise codebases.

• Development with Java, Kotlin, Spring Framework, Hibernate, MySQL, and cloud technologies.

• Using AWS for designing and building scalable, distributed, high-performance systems in large enterprise environments.

• Guiding teams through complex technical decisions for architectural system design and mentoring more junior software engineers.

• Collaborating across remote global teams and aligning multiple stakeholders on technical solutions.

• Translating complex business requirements into scalable solutions.

• Programming & Frameworks: MyBatis, JSP, and Struts.

• Databases: RDBMS (MySQL or Postgres); Non-Relational DBs (Redis, MongoDB, or DynamoDB).

• Messaging & Integration: ActiveMQ, Kafka, RESTful APIs, SOAP, and Graph APIs.

• Architecture: Microservices and experience with large-scale distributed systems and legacy-to-modern migration.

• CI/CD, automating testing frameworks, and performance tuning & profiling.

Job Location: Foster City, CA (Within the same MSA / Commuting distance of Redwood City, CA)  Rate of Pay: $213,512.00 - $352,000.00 per year.

Apply online at https://www.zuora.com/careers/ or send resume via email to [email protected] with  requisition number 1098 in the subject line.

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