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Sr Director, Payments Engineering

Foster CityFull-time$304k2026-10-07 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead engineering teams building and operating Zuora's payments platform to support subscriptions, usage-based pricing, and quote-to-cash workflows.

Role type

Senior Director, Payments Engineering

Builds

A scalable, low-latency payments platform integrating multiple gateways for transaction processing, authorization, and settlement.

Domain

Fintech / Payments

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed systems architecture, high-throughput system design, organizational leadership, engineering strategy, incident management, AI tooling adoption, team building, cross-functional partnership

Preferred skills

Payments domain expertise (gateways, processors, orchestration, risk), financial transaction correctness, PCI compliance

Technologies

Payment gateways, processors, orchestration layers, AI development tools

Responsibilities

Define technical roadmap and architecture for the payments platform; establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, and observability; improve productivity via AI tooling; partner with Product, Cloud Engineering, and Security; lead multiple engineering teams and managers.

Seniority

Senior Director, hands-on IC with organizational leadership