Software Engineer

Zoom • San Jose, CA

16h • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Software Engineer on Zoom’s Mail and Calendar team, you’ll build and scale critical backend systems that power communication experiences used globally. You will have opportunities to design across the stack — from APIs to distributed cloud services — ensuring reliability, scalability, and a seamless customer experience. You’ll collaborate with diverse peers across Zoom, contributing to solutions that scale globally. About the Team Zoom continues to grow at an extraordinary pace — in customers, innovation, and impact. Our mission is to deliver happiness through seamless communication, and our culture of trust and innovation makes Zoom an incredible place to build your career. If you’re excited about solving complex problems that touch millions of users every day, we’d love for you to join our team. You’ll have opportunities to innovate, experiment, and continuously grow your technical and leadership skills.

Requirements

• Have a Bachelor in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of industry experience
• Have solid proficiency in C/C++, with a track record of building performant, robust applications.
• Have experience developing large-scale, distributed backend systems.
• Be proficient in Linux development.
• Have familiarity with security best practices for backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing high-performance backend features in C/C++ to support our communication platform.
• Building and maintaining scalable APIs that power web-based calendar and scheduling workflows.
• Collaborating across engineering, product, and design teams to deliver solutions that meet evolving customer needs.
• Analyzing and improve system performance, proactively identifying bottlenecks and ensuring reliability at scale.
• Contributing to team practices by sharing expertise, mentoring peers, and supporting an inclusive, collaborative culture.

Benefits

• As part of our award-winning workplace culture and commitment to delivering happiness, our benefits program offers a variety of perks, benefits, and options to help employees maintain their physical, mental, emotional, and financial health; support work-life balance; and contribute to their community in meaningful ways.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees