Sr Forward Deployed Engineer

Zuora, Foster City, California +1

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Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) is Zuora’s newest technical go-to-market motion. Forward Deployed Engineers are full-time engineers in Zuora’s Product & Engineering organization who embed directly with customer engineering teams to build the integrations, prototypes and agents that no existing motion reaches. You work in a pod with a Forward Deployed Product Manager and, where scope requires, a second engineer. Our focus: building the future of agentic quote-to-cash, which means helping enterprises monetize AI-native and usage-based products, and taking Zuora’s new AI agents into their first customer deployments.

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Sr Forward Deployed Engineer

Zuora, Foster City, California +1

Posted pay

$209K–$313K

a year

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This base pay is above the median for senior software engineering jobs in the Bay Area.

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Location: Foster City, California +1
Work type: Not given
Level: Senior
Experience: 5+ years
Skills in the job text: Python
SQL
TypeScript
Java
Salesforce
Posted: 13 days ago
Last check: 12 h ago
Job type: Software engineering

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What you need

Builder. Show us what you’ve built: a product, integration, agent or tool you shipped that real people use. Walk us through the decisions, the trade-offs and what broke.
Founder mentality: you act like an owner of the business, not the ticket. You weigh cost, speed and customer impact, make the call, and fix what’s broken even when it isn’t yours.
Ownership: you want the ball when it matters most. You take the hardest problem on the engagement, own the result and see it through.
Polite persistence: you get to yes without burning bridges. When a customer, partner or internal team stalls, you follow up, find another path and keep the relationship intact.
Curiosity: you take things apart to see how they work, whether that’s the customer’s stack, a new model or an API you’ve never seen.
Doer by default: you’d rather build a working version than write a deck about it.
Force multiplier: you’ve delivered outcomes by pulling in people and agents beyond your own team.
AI-first: AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor or similar) are part of how you build every day. Show us a real example: what you built, how you directed the agent and how you checked its output before it shipped.
5+ years of professional software engineering, including customer-facing delivery or startup engineering.
Strong integration and API engineer with real production code shipped against external or partner systems, not only internal services. Python or TypeScript (Java a plus), REST, webhooks, event-driven patterns and solid SQL.
You’ve taken code to production yourself: security review, observability and on-call readiness are part of how you build, including security judgment for systems that touch financial data.
Hands-on experience building production LLM applications or agents (tool calling, retrieval, prompt engineering) and evaluating their output before it reaches a customer.
Fast, and allergic to overbuilding: comfortable shipping in weeks to months, not quarters or years.
Can sit with a customer’s staff engineer and hold the room, and explain trade-offs to finance users and architects alike, with strong technical communication under ambiguity.
Write things down without being asked: specs, gap reports and the exit Brief are part of the job.
Low ego. This is a founding role: the job description will change under you, and you’ll help write the next version of it.

Sr Forward Deployed Engineer

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Sr Forward Deployed Engineer

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What you will do

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Embedded build

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Product feedback loop

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