--- title: 'Sr. Software Engineer at Zuora' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/sr-software-engineer-zuora-beijing-xdxg6nbyf4x4' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-13' --- # Sr. Software Engineer at Zuora - **Company:** Zuora - **Location:** Beijing, China - **Posted:** 2026-09-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13 - **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/zuora/jobs/8185591?gh_jid=8185591 ## Job description Company Overview At Zuora, we do [Modern Business](https://www.zuora.com/modern-business/). We’re helping people subscribe to new ways of doing business that are better for people, companies and ultimately the planet. It’s an approach resulting from the shift to the Subscription Economy that puts customers first by building recurring relationships instead of one-time product sales and focuses on sustainable growth. Through our leading expertise and multi-product suite - including Zuora Billing and Zuora Revenue — we provide a unified monetization and revenue automation platform that connects quoting, billing, payments, and revenue recognition end to end. Our solutions give finance and revenue teams a single source of truth for subscription economics, streamline ASC 606-compliant revenue recognition, and enable real-time insights into growth, profitability, and customer lifetime value. We are transforming all industries and working with the world’s most innovative companies to monetize new business models, nurture subscriber relationships and optimize their digital experiences. The Team & Role The Beijing Billing Core team is a specialized engineering powerhouse and the heartbeat of Zuora’s global platform. As a mission-critical core team, we architect the foundational systems that power the world’s most sophisticated enterprise businesses. We operate at the intersection of high-scale distributed systems and real-time data innovation, prioritizing long-term engineering excellence and robust, scalable design. The Opportunity: Leading the Strategic Evolution We are currently driving a high-stakes evolution from traditional enterprise architecture to an intelligent, event-driven ecosystem. - Mission-Critical Impact: Your work sits at the center of the global economy, directly enabling the growth of industry-leading organizations. - The AI-Augmented Frontier: We are pioneering the future of software delivery by embracing an AI-first engineering culture. Our team leverages advanced AI development environments to navigate complex architectural puzzles, allowing our engineers to focus on high-level systems thinking and innovation. - Global Technical Leadership: This is a rare opportunity to bridge the gap between stable, world-class foundations and greenfield data engineering within a high-talent global hub. The Mission: Architecting the Future of Billing Your mission is to ensure our platform remains the definitive global standard for reliability and intelligence. You will solve the industry’s most challenging scale and consistency problems, building a self-healing, high-concurrency engine that defines the future of digital commerce. This is a location specific position that requires you to come into the office regularly to be most effective. ## What you’ll do - Architect Mission-Critical Systems: You will design and evolve high-performance, distributed services within our core Java environment. You will be responsible for the architectural stewardship of systems that process billions of transactions, ensuring they remain scalable, robust, and enterprise-grade. - Drive Real-Time Data Innovation: You will lead the development of sophisticated stream processing pipelines and event-driven architectures. By bridging the gap between foundational data stores and real-time analytics, you will enable the "Intelligence Layer" that defines the future of our global platform. - Pioneer AI-Augmented Engineering: You will embrace an AI-first development culture, utilizing advanced tools like Claude Code and Codex to navigate complex logic and solve deep architectural puzzles. You will champion engineering excellence, prioritizing disciplined, maintainable design over temporary workarounds. What You’ll Achieve: Impact & Outcomes Instead of a list of tasks, these milestones focus on your growth and impact within the team. - In your first 3 months: You will develop a thorough understanding of our core engine and streaming pipelines. You will successfully use AI-assisted tools to deliver high-quality features and enhancements within our distributed environment. - By month 6: You will take ownership of a specific service or functional area. You will implement complex streaming or backend features, ensuring they are performant and integrate seamlessly with our real-time data layer. - Within your first year: You will contribute to the long-term reliability of our platform by resolving technical bottlenecks. You will collaborate with the team to adopt AI-augmented practices and play a key role in the transition toward a more responsive, event-driven architecture ## Your Experience (Must-Haves) To ensure an inclusive applicant pool, we have limited this to core skills essential for success in this role. - Strong Java Foundations: Significant experience building and scaling services within large codebases using Modern Java, the Spring Framework, and ORM/Persistence Frameworks; committed to delivering clean, maintainable, and disciplined code. - Distributed Systems & Data Engineering: Expert in architecting stream processing pipelines and managing data consistency in high-concurrency, data-intensive systems; proficient in leveraging Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Beam, and Change Data Capture (CDC) alongside MySQL, ClickHouse, and Redis to build scalable architectures that support evolving schemas and massive data growth. - Infrastructure & Deployment: Proven ability to architect and manage cloud-native backend services using AWS and Kubernetes to ensure high availability and system resilience. - AI-Assisted Productivity: Proficient in utilizing AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, Codex, and Cursor to solve complex engineering puzzles efficiently and increase overall technical leverage. Nice to Haves These are not required for application but are areas where you can add immediate value. - Data & Analytics: Experience with relational database optimization or building real-time data synchronization solutions. - Cloud Operations: Familiarity with deploying and monitoring services in cloud-native or containerized environments. - Collaborative Approach: Experience working in a global engineering hub and a desire to participate in technical discussions and learning. #ZEOLife at Zuora As an industry pioneer, our work is constantly evolving and challenging us in new ways that require us to think differently, iterate often and learn constantly—it’s exciting. Our people, whom we refer to as “ZEOs" are empowered to take on a mindset of ownership and make a bigger impact here. Our teams collaborate deeply, exchange different ideas openly and together we’re making what’s next possible for our customers, community and the world. As part of our commitment to building an inclusive, high-performance culture where ZEOs feel inspired, connected and valued, we support ZEOs with: - Competitive compensation, variable bonus and performance reward opportunities, and retirement programs - Medical, dental and vision insurance - Generous, flexible time off - Paid holidays, “wellness” days and company wide end of year break - More than 10 weeks  fully paid parental leave - Learning & Development stipend - Opportunities to volunteer and give back, including charitable donation match - Free resources and support for your mental wellbeing Specific benefits offerings may vary by country and can be viewed in more detail during your interview process. Location & Work Arrangements Organizations and teams at Zuora are empowered to design efficient and flexible ways of working, being intentional about scheduling, communication, and collaboration strategies that help us achieve our best results. In our dynamic, globally distributed company, this means balancing flexibility and responsibility — flexibility to live our lives to the fullest, and responsibility to each other, to our customers, and to our shareholders. For most roles, we offer the flexibility to work both remotely and at Zuora offices. Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace Think, be and do you! At Zuora, different perspectives, experiences and contributions matter. Everyone counts. Zuora is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. Zuora does not discriminate on the basis of, and considers individuals seeking employment with Zuora without regards to, race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us by sending an email to assistance(at)zuora.com. ## About Zuora ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Zuora provides a cloud-based monetization platform that enables companies to launch, manage, and grow subscription, usage, and hybrid recurring revenue models through an integrated quote-to-cash and revenue recognition system. - **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: ZUO) - **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, USA - **Founded**: 2007 - **Founders**: Tien Tzuo (CEO), K.V. Rao, Cheng Zou ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Financial Technology (FinTech), Subscription Management, Recurring Billing, Revenue Automation - Target customers: B2B; primarily mid-market to enterprise companies across industries (tech, media, manufacturing, automotive, industrial) that operate subscription, usage-based, or hybrid pricing models. Key customers include BMC Software, Box, Caterpillar, General Motors, Schneider Electric, Siemens, and Zoom. - Mission or purpose statement: To enable the world’s best companies to win in the Subscription Economy® by helping them build, manage, and grow direct, digital subscriber relationships. ## Products & Services - **Zuora Billing**: A flexible billing engine supporting any mix of recurring, usage-based, or one-time pricing models with a comprehensive product catalog, automated invoicing, and dunning management. - **Zuora Revenue**: An automated revenue recognition solution that handles complex ASC 606/IFRS 15 compliance, contract modifications, and audit-ready reporting and disclosures. - **Zuora Collections**: An AI-powered receivables management solution that automates the full collections journey to accelerate cash recovery while maintaining customer relationships. - **Zuora Payments**: A global payment management platform with flexible provider options, built-in fraud protection, and a partner network to boost payment success rates and reduce churn. - **Zuora CPQ**: A configure-price-quote tool built for recurring revenue and complex enterprise deals, ensuring seamless flow from quote to billing and revenue recognition. - **Zuora Central Platform**: The core integration and extensibility layer with APIs, webhooks, event-driven syncs, ERP/CRM connectors, and low-code workflows. - **Zuora AI Paywalls**: An AI-powered tool to deliver personalized paywalls, trials, freemium offers, and bundles with no coding required. - **Zephr**: A subscription experience platform (acquired) for managing subscriber access, identity, and experiences. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Market cap of approximately $1.5–$2.0 billion (as of mid-2025, fluctuates with market). - **Key Metric**: Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) not publicly disclosed in recent filings; total revenue for FY2025 (ending Jan 31, 2025) was approximately $460 million. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Major institutional investors include BlackRock, Vanguard, and others. Key technology partners include Salesforce, NetSuite, SAP, Workday, and major payment gateways. - **Growth Signals**: Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Recurring Billing Applications; ranked #1 in the ISG Research Subscription Management Buyers Guide; recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Forrester Wave™ for Recurring Billing Solutions; ranked #1 in Product and Strategy in Automated Revenue Management; serves over 1,000 companies worldwide; expanding AI capabilities across the platform. ## Competitive Advantages - **Pioneer and market definer**: Coined the term "Subscription Economy®" and has 15+ years of domain expertise in recurring revenue business models. - **End-to-end platform**: Only vendor offering a fully integrated quote-to-cash and revenue recognition solution in a single system, reducing integration complexity. - **Audit-ready by design**: No Zuora public customer has ever failed a revenue audit, a powerful trust signal for public companies and regulated industries. - **AI-first innovation**: Embedded AI across the platform for predictive collections, revenue insights, and automated paywalls, with a human-in-the-loop governance model. - **Deep enterprise capabilities**: Supports multi-entity, multi-currency, global tax compliance, and complex pricing models (usage, hybrid, AI tokens) that competitors struggle with. - **ERP-agnostic architecture**: Designed to integrate without requiring a re-platforming of existing ERP systems. ## Strategic Focus - **AI monetization**: Helping customers launch and manage AI-driven pricing models (e.g., token-based usage) with end-to-end metering, billing, and revenue recognition. - **Expanding AI platform capabilities**: Building AI tools specifically for finance teams (CFOs, Controllers) to automate manual reconciliation, forecasting, and compliance work. - **Global expansion**: Deepening presence in EMEA and APAC with local offices and compliance support. - **Partner ecosystem growth**: Strengthening integrations with major ERP, CRM, and payment platforms to reduce implementation friction. - **Customer time-to-value**: Using AI to accelerate implementation and migration cycles, including automated contract-to-catalog translation and data mapping. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Emphasizes a "people first" culture where employees (called "ZEOs") are empowered to take initiative and own outcomes. Core values include "Subscriber Obsessed," "Own Our Outcomes," "Catalyze What's Next," "Build Trust," and "Better Together." - **Flexible work**: Distributed workforce with flexible work arrangements; offices in Redwood City (HQ), Atlanta, Boston, Frisco, New York, Costa Rica, London, Stockholm, Paris, Munich, Milan, Zurich, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney, and Chennai. - **Remote options**: Many roles are remote-friendly, especially in engineering, customer success, and sales. - **Engineering culture**: Focus on building AI-driven financial software; roles include AI Engineers, Solutions Architects, and Product Managers working on cutting-edge monetization technology. - **Award-winning workplace**: Recognized as a great place to work with a strong sense of community and mission-driven work. - **Growth opportunities**: As a public company with expanding product lines and global footprint, there are opportunities to work on high-impact problems at scale. ## Sources 1. [zuora.com](https://www.zuora.com/) 2. [zuora.com/about](https://www.zuora.com/about/) 3. [zuora.com/careers](https://www.zuora.com/careers/) 4. [linkedin.com/company/zuora](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zuora) 5. 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