diff --git a/taskflow/jobs/backends/impl_zookeeper.py b/taskflow/jobs/backends/impl_zookeeper.py
index b0a53ecc..eb555a36 100644
--- a/taskflow/jobs/backends/impl_zookeeper.py
+++ b/taskflow/jobs/backends/impl_zookeeper.py
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ ALL_JOB_STATES = (
 
 # Transaction support was added in 3.4.0
 MIN_ZK_VERSION = (3, 4, 0)
+LOCK_POSTFIX = ".lock"
+JOB_PREFIX = 'job'
 
 
 def _check_who(who):
@@ -74,7 +76,7 @@ class ZookeeperJob(base_job.Job):
             raise ValueError("Only one of 'book_data' or 'book'"
                              " can be provided")
         self._path = path
-        self._lock_path = "%s.lock" % (path)
+        self._lock_path = path + LOCK_POSTFIX
         self._created_on = created_on
         self._node_not_found = False
 
@@ -232,7 +234,7 @@ class ZookeeperJobBoard(jobboard.NotifyingJobBoard):
         self._job_watcher = None
         # Since we use sequenced ids this will be the path that the sequences
         # are prefixed with, for example, job0000000001, job0000000002, ...
-        self._job_base = k_paths.join(path, "job")
+        self._job_base = k_paths.join(path, JOB_PREFIX)
         self._worker = None
         self._emit_notifications = bool(emit_notifications)
 
@@ -331,7 +333,12 @@ class ZookeeperJobBoard(jobboard.NotifyingJobBoard):
 
     def _on_job_posting(self, children, delayed=True):
         LOG.debug("Got children %s under path %s", children, self.path)
-        child_paths = [k_paths.join(self.path, c) for c in children]
+        child_paths = []
+        for c in children:
+            if c.endswith(LOCK_POSTFIX) or not c.startswith(JOB_PREFIX):
+                # Skip lock paths or non-job-paths (these are not valid jobs)
+                continue
+            child_paths.append(k_paths.join(self.path, c))
 
         # Remove jobs that we know about but which are no longer children
         with self._job_mutate: