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Sr Director, Payments Engineering
Zuora INC · 🇺🇸 Foster City, California, United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 32 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 14 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Zuora INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Sr. Manager, Network Engineering” (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) in CA: $186k–$205k, median $196k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 32 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 14 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 We're looking for a Senior Director of Engineering to lead the teams building and operating our payments platform. You'll shape technical strategy, strengthen engineering execution, and develop an organization that delivers reliable, scalable payment experiences. This role requires a leader who combines technical depth with strong organizational leadership: someone who raises the bar for system performance, software quality, and operational discipline while helping teams move faster through effective use of AI tooling. Payment experience is a plus. In this role, you'll: • Lead for performance, scale, and resilience. Define the architecture and technical roadmap for a payments platform that supports growing transaction volumes, delivers low latency, and remains reliable through traffic spikes and downstream failures. • Raise engineering and operational standards. Establish strong practices for system design, code quality, testing, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement. Build consistent approaches to integrating and operating across multiple payment gateways, including failure isolation, safe retries, and recovery. • Improve engineering productivity with AI. Accelerate the adoption of AI tools across development, testing, code review, and troubleshooting. Measure their impact on delivery speed and quality, and establish practices that preserve security and maintainability. • Partner across the business. Work closely with Product, Cloud Engineering, Security and gateway partners to deliver the business outcomes. About You You bring: • Experience leading multiple engineering teams and managers, with responsibility for technical strategy, organizational health, and execution. • A track record of building and operating high-throughput, highly available distributed systems, with demonstrated improvements in performance, scalability, and resilience. • Strong technical judgment and the ability to engage deeply in architecture, design, and code quality while empowering teams to make decisions. • Experience establishing engineering and operational excellence across complex systems and third-party integrations, including clear service objectives, effective incident management, and measurable reliability improvements. • Practical experience improving engineering productivity through AI tooling with an emphasis on measurable outcomes. • Demonstrated success recruiting, retaining, and developing engineers and managers, setting ambitious but achievable goals, and addressing performance gaps directly and constructively. • Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs and connect engineering decisions to business priorities. Preferred experience: • Payments experience spanning gateways, processors, orchestration, authorization, settlement, reconciliation, or payment risk. • Familiarity with financial transaction correctness, idempotency, payment security, and PCI compliance. Deep payments expertise is welcome, but not required. We value leaders who have built reliable systems, developed strong teams, and can learn a complex domain quickly. About the Team You'll lead multiple engine