# Sr Forward Deployed Engineer at Zuora > United States · Senior · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Azuora%3A8281559 (read 2026-11-04). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [Zuora](https://alderhq.app/companies/zuora) - Location text: Foster City, California, United States; Foster City - Where it can be done from (inferred): United States (evidence: "Location: Foster City, California, United States; Foster City") - Posted: 2026-10-28 (6 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://boards.greenhouse.io/zuora/jobs/8281559?gh_jid=8281559 ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: $209k–$313k per year (from the listing's pay field) - Market band for similar posted roles (SF Bay Area, n 797): p25 $183k, median $207k, p75 $230k - H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 21, median offered wage $174k ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance)) - Licensed UK sponsor: registered as "Zuora UK Limited" (checked 2026-11-03, [register](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers)) ## Description (the employer's text) ### About Zuora At Zuora, we help businesses grow smarter and adapt faster. Our platform powers modern business models — from subscriptions and usage-based pricing to AI-driven and outcome-based offerings — helping companies launch new products, automate complex billing, and unlock predictable, recurring revenue. We’ve led the Subscription Economy for more than a decade. Now we’re evolving again by building the definitive platform for quote to cash and helping companies monetize their products and services with an adaptable, AI-ready foundation. ### The Opportunity ### Embedded build - Co-build integrations, prototypes and agents with customer engineering teams in fixed-time engagements measured in weeks to months: production-quality code with a declared destination and a maintainer of record. - Co-author the specification with your Forward Deployed Product Manager, and agree scope and success measures with the customer before you build. - Prototype on the customer’s real data within the first few weeks, then harden it for production: security review, monitoring, and evals for AI-driven workflows. - Design and ship production agents and multi-agent workflows: tool and function calling, sub-agents, orchestration, and MCP servers and clients, with context and retrieval engineered for quality, latency and cost. - Integrate Zuora with the customer’s existing stack, including third-party metering and entitlement tools and ERP, CRM and finance systems, with Zuora as the order-to-revenue system of record. - Build AI-monetization integrations: usage and AI-credit metering feeds, credit wallets and drawdown, and the billing and revenue flows behind them. - Take Zuora’s new AI agents into their first customer deployments, extending the platform toward new use cases and new customer segments. ### Agent quality and control - Build eval harnesses and golden datasets with your Forward Deployed Product Manager and customer experts. Set acceptance thresholds and run evals in CI to gate every change. - Implement guardrails and human-in-the-loop controls: least-privilege access, approval gates for write actions, and segregation of duties. - Instrument everything (tracing, logging of prompts, inputs, outputs and model versions) so every agent action can be reconstructed for audit. - Build with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor or similar) as an everyday practice, and review their output with production rigor. ### Product feedback loop - File gap reports into the product roadmap. You’re the highest-fidelity sensor the product org has on what customers actually need built. - Write the engagement Brief at exit, our standard write-up of what was built, what broke, what’s reusable and where it should live next. Turn what works into reusable components. ### Ownership & handoff - Hold the warranty window (roughly 30–60 days after go-live), then hand off to the named maintainer of record with runbooks and documentation. FDE doesn’t keep a maintenance book of business. - An engagement isn’t done until the customer’s own team can run what you built without you in the room. Upskilling them is part of the build, not an afterthought. ### Multiply what you build - Delegate to agents and pull in Zuora engineers, partners and the customer’s engineers so the work moves faster than one person could carry it. - Leave behind tools, components and agents that make the next engagement faster. - Onboard new teammates inside live engagements on a watch one → do one → teach one progression. ### What success looks like - Customers adopt what you build: Zuora’s agents and AI-monetization capabilities are live in production and in daily use, and more of the customer’s quote-to-cash runs on Zuora. - The customer’s team runs it without you, and the engagement leads to the next one: an expansion, a renewal or a reference. - Every engagement makes Zuora stronger: reusable components, product gaps closed, and a faster path for the next customer. ### About You ### What we look for - 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. --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Azuora%3A8281559 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.