Data Engineer, Zapier
$138.3-207.5k
CA$138.3K – CA$207.5K, €75.1K – €112.7K, £86.9K – £130.3K. Plus equity and bonus
Workflow automation service
Job no longer available
Workflow automation service
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$138.3-207.5k
CA$138.3K – CA$207.5K, €75.1K – €112.7K, £86.9K – £130.3K. Plus equity and bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Zapier's mission is to Make Automation Work for Everyone!
Role
Who you are
- Experienced in Data Engineering: You have 4+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, with a proven track record of building and managing data pipelines and infrastructure in cloud environments. You’re familiar with the intricacies of modern data platforms and the best practices for scalability and performance
- Proficient in Data Pipeline Development: You are skilled at building reliable, scalable data pipelines that move, transform, and prepare data across environments, ensuring it’s accessible and actionable for analytics and product use cases
- Cloud and Big Data Expertise: You are comfortable working in cloud ecosystems like AWS, GCP, or Azure and have hands-on experience with cloud storage, data warehouses, and big data processing tools
- Skilled in Databricks and Distributed Processing: You have in-depth experience with Databricks, Spark, or other distributed processing platforms, using them to process large datasets efficiently and cost-effectively
- Software Development Lifecycle This role encompasses the full software lifecycle, including design, development, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of data solutions. You’ll be responsible for every stage of data pipeline and platform development, ensuring robust and scalable systems that meet business needs
- Programming Proficiency: You’re highly skilled in Python or another data-centric language, and you have strong SQL capabilities for data transformation and querying. You are comfortable writing efficient, reusable, and maintainable code that adheres to industry best practices
- Commitment to Data Quality and Observability: You value data integrity and implement solutions to monitor data quality, observability, and lineage. You use testing, monitoring, and alerting practices to ensure data reliability throughout the pipeline
- You are a skilled written communicator. Zapier is a 100% remote team and writing is our primary means of communication. You communicate complex technical topics clearly and in an approachable way
- You enjoy collaboration and knowledge sharing. You appreciate our team’s values of eagerness to collaborate with teammates with any level of technical knowledge, iterating over your deliverables, and being curious
- Innovation. You embrace innovation and continuous improvement, refine processes, streamline workflows, and embrace change as an opportunity for growth
- You understand that perfect is the enemy of good. You will default to action by initially shipping solutions that simply work and work simply while iterating as needed
What the job involves
- Build and Optimize Data Pipelines: Design, develop, and maintain efficient ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks, Airflow, and cloud-native tools to support product and machine learning use cases
- Collaborate on Data Architecture: Partner with engineering and analytics teams to optimize data storage, processing workflows, and database schemas, ensuring data accessibility, security, and scalability
- Manage Data Quality and Integrity: Develop automated testing, monitoring, and validation frameworks to uphold data quality and integrity, implementing best practices in observability and issue detection
- Performance Tuning, Maintenance and Optimization: Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of data workflows, identifying and resolving bottlenecks in data ingestion, transformation, and storage. You will participate in on-call rotation for data-owned services
- Build Data Platform and Tooling: Design and develop reusable data platform tools, frameworks, and self-service capabilities to empower other teams to efficiently access, analyze, and utilize data within their workflows
- Support Cross-Functional Projects: Work closely with Product, Analytics, and Machine Learning teams to support their data needs, helping them achieve their goals through reliable and insightful data
- Mentor and Share Knowledge: Act as a resource for junior team members, offering guidance and knowledge-sharing to elevate team expertise and contribute to a culture of learning
Application process
- Deadline to Apply 16 December 2024 at 05:00 GMT
Our take
Even before remote working became the "in thing", freelancers, small business owners, and large organisations have found themselves needing more and more software platforms to serve their operational needs. As people used more software services, Zapier founders saw the need to connect the actions between these software and save everyone some time.
Zapier is the largest integration and automation tool for businesses. Since its founding, Zapier has grown its suite of automation offerings across almost every mainstream software service. The company is one of the most successful to come out of Y Combinator and has also been a pioneer of remote working.
Zapier has so far been able to capitalise heavily on its advantage as one of the first entrants and has had very little actual competition. Software services aren't going anywhere anytime soon, and organisations are only going to need more of them. This puts Zapier in a strong position for growth, but also opens up room for bolder companies to get in on the action. Companies like Airtable and Integromat are already preying on more niche segments of Zapier's market share.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2012
$1.3m
SEED
Sep 2012
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $1.5m
Company benefits
- Work from anywhere
- Bonus program
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Great healthcare + dental + vision coverage*
- Retirement plan with company match*
- Stock options for every Zapien**
- 2 annual company retreats to awesome places
- 14 weeks paid leave for new parents
- Home office setup stipend
- Professional development allowance
Additional info
- As a fully remote company with 800+ team members across 40+ states, 38 countries, and 18+ timezones, we’ve adopted a culture of asynchronous work. This work style allows teams to collaborate effectively across locations, time zones, skills, and each individual’s energy levels, and empowers employees to work in a setting that fits their needs. In practice, we live on Slack, with most conversations in public channels. It mimics the open-office feel and allows everyone to search the chat logs if they need to find something that happened when they weren’t around
Leadership
Wade Foster
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Zapier, wasEmail Marketing Manager with Veterans United Home Loans, and Customer Development Lead at The Idea Works.
Bryan Helmig
(Co-Founder & CTO)Was previously Product Dev/Manager at Veterans United Home Loans.
Mike Knoop
(Co-Founder)Was CPO and Head of Labs at Zapier before becoming President. Previously was a Graduate Research at the University of Missouri.
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