Software Development Engineer, Technical Leader
Zoom · San Jose, CA
staff
Software Engineer
ic
· Posted Jun 1, 2026
Skills
Python Java Spring REST APIs MySQL MongoDB Redis Elasticsearch DynamoDB Kafka TensorFlow PyTorch RAG NLP Computer Vision Linux Networking Microservices API Development Agile Machine Learning Performance Optimization SaaS Nginx AWS Azure Kubernetes LLMs CI/CD Prometheus Grafana PagerDuty Distributed Systems Testing Observability Disaster Recovery Automation Cloud Computing AI Agents
About this role
Zoom is hiring a staff-level Software Engineer based in San Jose, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, Spring, REST APIs.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Jose, CA
- Posted
- Jun 1, 2026
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Job description
from Zoom careersImmigration sponsorship is not available for this position
Responsibilities:
- Lead a high-performing software engineering team to architect, develop, and deliver AI-driven, scalable enterprise solutions, including cloud-based file management platforms, real-time collaboration tools, and proactive monitoring systems supporting 99.99% uptime.
- Utilize advanced technologies such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), large language models (LLMs), domain-optimized AI models, and workflow orchestration to drive product innovation, optimize distributed architecture, and mentor engineers in designing resilient, high-performance systems serving millions of global users.
- Provide technical leadership for designing, implementing, and optimizing AI-powered features, including RAG-based knowledge retrieval and AI-driven conversational agents, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives.
- Mentor engineers in advanced software engineering practices, AI model integration, and system performance optimization for large-scale, cloud-native SaaS platforms.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve complex technical challenges, evaluate trade-offs, and ensure efficient resource utilization.
- Architect and evolve cloud-based file management platforms capable of processing over 30 TB of data per day, with distributed storage, synchronization, AI-assisted metadata extraction (including OCR), search, and classification capabilities.
- Lead the design and implementation of low-latency real-time chat and collaboration systems supporting millions of concurrent users.
- Develop workflow automation systems incorporating rule-based processing, AI-assisted orchestration, and intelligent agentic workflows for diverse business scenarios.
- Integrate AI agents with LLMs and small language models to enable intelligent querying, recommendations, and smart compose features.
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