Engineering Manager, Zapier
Developer Impact
$187.8-281.6k
Salary applicable to US applicants, for Canadian applicants the range is CA$187.8K – CA$281.6K. + Equity and bonus for all
Senior and Expert level
Remote from Canada, US
Workflow automation service
Be an early applicant
Workflow automation service
1001+ employees
B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsProductivityAutomation
Be an early applicant
$187.8-281.6k
Salary applicable to US applicants, for Canadian applicants the range is CA$187.8K – CA$281.6K. + Equity and bonus for all
Senior and Expert level
Remote from Canada, US
1001+ employees
B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsProductivityAutomation
Company mission
Zapier's mission is to Make Automation Work for Everyone!
Role
Who you are
- Developer Productivity Leader: You have experience leading teams focused on developer productivity, developer experience, or internal platforms
- You treat internal engineers as your customers – empathizing with their pain points and delivering solutions that make their work easier and faster
- Skilled Team Builder: You’re a proven engineering leader (with a few years of management under your belt) who knows how to hire, develop, and retain great talent
- Experimental & Data-Driven: You thrive in a hypothesis-driven environment
- You love to experiment with new tools or processes to improve workflow, measure the results with data, and iterate based on what you learn
- Change doesn’t scare you – you embrace it as an opportunity to improve and leverage new ideas
- Technical Aptitude: You’ve shipped production code and have a solid grasp of modern software development practices
- You have hands-on familiarity with things like CI/CD pipelines, version control, code review processes, and cloud infrastructure
- You’ve likely built or improved internal tools or automation for a dev team before, so you can dive into technical discussions and guide your team in making sound engineering decisions
- Applied AI Enthusiast: You have interest or experience in applying AI/ML to developer workflows
- Maybe you’ve used AI coding assistants, automated testing tools, or other AI-driven development aids – or you’re eager to learn and adopt them
- You stay curious about emerging tech (AI included) that can reduce developer toil and improve efficiency
- Product Mindset: You think like a product manager when it comes to internal tooling
- You can balance quick wins (e.g. automating a tedious manual task) with long-term investments (e.g. a standardized framework or service template)
- You prioritize work that delivers high leverage for the business, and you’re comfortable adjusting the roadmap as the needs of the engineering org evolve
- Strong Communicator & Collaborator: You build strong relationships across teams
- You can align with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and other stakeholders on a shared vision for engineering excellence
- You communicate complex ideas with clarity and ensure your team’s work and impact are understood across the organization
- You’re adept at gathering feedback from others and explaining the “why” behind decisions
- Mentorship & Growth Orientation: You love helping engineers level up. You provide coaching, constructive feedback, and mentorship to your team, and you encourage a culture of continuous learning
- You have a knack for identifying people’s strengths and developing opportunities for them to shine
- If you’re excited about high-leverage opportunities to boost engineering productivity, and you love collaborating in a culture of creative experimentation, you’ll thrive in this role
- Eager to lead high-impact projects at a fast-growing, profitable, and remote-first company
What the job involves
- Hi there! Zapier is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Developer Impact team, part of the Zapier Internal Platforms zone
- We’re on a mission to make everyone more productive at work through the power of automation, and that includes our own engineers. Zapier has helped millions of people build businesses through the power of our automation platform
- Now, we want to ensure our developers have equally amazing tools and processes internally to build the future of automation with velocity and confidence
- Zapier’s Developer Impact team is focused on improving the effectiveness and velocity of our engineering organization
- We do this by applying insights and innovations in development tooling and processes – with a strong emphasis on AI-powered developer workflows and cutting-edge productivity tooling
- As the Engineering Manager for Developer Impact, you'll shape and drive this mission, working across the company to eliminate friction in the software development life cycle
- This isn’t your typical DevEx team. We take a hypothesis-driven, experimental approach to internal tooling, rapidly testing ideas and measuring their impact
- We heavily leverage applied AI – from intelligent code assistants to automated CI pipelines – to reduce toil and supercharge our developers’ flow
- We also keep our scope nimble, building lightweight solutions that we dogfood internally and quickly adapt as technology and team needs evolve
- Lead the Developer Impact team: Manage and mentor a small, nimble team of engineers dedicated to developer productivity. You’ll set the vision and direction, and keep the team focused on high-impact projects
- Identify & Eliminate Friction: Work closely with engineers on product teams to discover pain points in their day-to-day development process
- You’ll solicit feedback through surveys, shadowing, and conversations, then prioritize and address the biggest friction points to dramatically increase developer velocity across Zapier
- Champion the “Golden Path”: Collaborate with our internal platform teams to define and promote a golden path of best practices, standardized tech stacks, service templates, and frameworks
- You’ll drive adoption of these standards, making it easier for engineers to do the right thing by default when building new services or features
- Own Internal Documentation & Templates: Oversee Zapier’s internal developer documentation strategy, ensuring engineers have clear, discoverable guides for how we build software
- Your team will maintain up-to-date service templates, example apps, and reference implementations so that starting a new project is frictionless and consistent
- Apply AI to Developer Workflows: Explore, experiment with, and implement AI-powered tooling to solve real development challenges
- This could mean integrating AI assistants into code editors or code review processes, using machine learning to optimize test pipelines, or prototyping chatbots that help developers find information faster
- You’ll bring practical AI solutions to bear on our software development lifecycle
- Build Lightweight, Adaptable Tools: Create and maintain a suite of internal tools and automations that make our engineers’ lives easier – from command-line utilities to CI/CD enhancements
- You’ll ensure these solutions are lightweight and well-documented, and you’ll dogfood them within the team first to iterate quickly based on real-world use
- Continuous Feedback & Iteration: Establish feedback loops with the engineering organization
- You’ll gather input and usage data on the tools and processes your team introduces, measure their impact (e.g. reductions in build times, improved deploy frequency, developer satisfaction), and iterate rapidly. Success for this team means high adoption and tangible improvements in how quickly and safely we ship code
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Zapier’s broader AI initiatives and other platform engineering teams. You’ll share insights and tooling between teams, avoid duplication of effort, and align internal developer experience improvements with the company’s overall technology strategy
- Communication & Advocacy: Champion developer experience at Zapier. You’ll communicate your team’s plans, progress, and wins to the rest of the company through updates, demos, and documentation
- Part of your job is evangelizing the value of internal tooling and ensuring that engineering leadership is aware of the leverage your team provides
- Grow the Team (as needed): Participate in hiring processes for your team and others. You’ll help attract diverse talent, conduct interviews, and smoothly onboard new hires so they quickly feel at home and productive at Zapier
Application process
- Deadline to Apply: November 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM UTC
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 operations needs. As people used more software services, Zapier founders saw the need to connect the actions between these softwares and save everyone some time.
Zapier is the largest integration and automation tool for businesses. Since being founded, 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 one of the pioneers of remote working.
Zapier has so far, been able to capitalise heavily on its advantage as 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 place growth-wise 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
Top investors
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
(CEO & Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding Zapier, wasEmail Marketing Manager with Veterans United Home Loans, and Customer Development Lead at The Idea Works.
Bryan Helmig
(CTO & Co-Founder)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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