Engineering Manager, Zapier
Data Engineering
$187.8-281.6k
Salary applicable to US. For Canada: CA$187.8K – CA$281.6K. For Spain: €122.2K – €183.4K.Offers Equity + Bonus
Workflow automation service
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Workflow automation service
1001+ employees
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$187.8-281.6k
Salary applicable to US. For Canada: CA$187.8K – CA$281.6K. For Spain: €122.2K – €183.4K.Offers Equity + Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
Zapier's mission is to Make Automation Work for Everyone!
Role
Who you are
- You have 8+ years of experience in data and/or software engineering, including 3+ years in a people management role. You’ve built and scaled data or backend systems in cloud environments and guided teams through the evolution from pipelines to services
- You possess strong leadership and strategic planning skills. You’ve successfully managed technical teams, set clear goals, and driven your team to meet them. You have a knack for aligning data capabilities with business objectives and can effectively communicate the value of these capabilities to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- You have a strong software engineering background. You understand how to design and operate APIs, distributed systems, and data-serving layers that handle growth, reliability, and cost efficiency. You think in systems and build for reuse
- You are skilled in stakeholder management. You excel at building relationships across the organization, working closely with Product, Engineering, and other teams to ensure alignment and drive collaborative success. You’re adept at translating complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for a variety of audiences
- You are fluent in AI and its implications. You use AI to enhance your team’s productivity and creativity, but you also understand how it reshapes opportunity space — influencing business priorities, technical strategy, and the way data products are built and consumed
- You prioritize quality, observability, and reliability. You help your team design systems that are tested, monitored, and observable, ensuring data integrity and confidence in production
- 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
- You excel at leading and developing people. You create clarity and alignment, provide coaching and feedback, and help engineers grow in both technical and personal dimensions. You balance autonomy with accountability and celebrate impact over output
- Are you excited about building systems that make data accessible, reliable, and impactful across a fast-growing product ecosystem
- We’re looking for a Manager, Data Engineering to lead a team that designs and scales the data services and frameworks powering product experiences and AI capabilities at Zapier
- As the Manager of Data Engineering, you’ll guide a team of talented engineers in developing APIs, backend systems, and reusable engineering patterns that help the rest of Zapier build with data safely and efficiently
- You’ll shape how we serve data, scale our infrastructure, and collaborate across Product, Machine Learning, and Analytics to unlock new possibilities
What the job involves
- Lead and develop the Data Engineering team: Manage, coach, and grow a distributed team of engineers focused on building scalable, reusable data systems and APIs
- Shape our data services and platform strategy: Define the architectural vision for how data is ingested, processed, served, and accessed across Zapier. Drive toward simplicity, scalability, and self-service
- Develop reusable engineering patterns: Champion the creation of frameworks and abstractions that enable engineers across Zapier to safely self-serve data capabilities without depending on the data team for every integration
- Build reliable and observable systems: Ensure data pipelines, APIs, and services meet high standards for quality, performance, and uptime. Establish operational metrics and incident practices for data-owned systems
- Champion governance, CI/CD, and operational excellence: Ensure data systems and practices uphold security, privacy, and compliance standards while driving automation, reliability, and continuous improvement across the data platform
- Collaborate across teams: Work with Product and AI/Machine Learning teams to align data solutions with their goals — from powering personalization and AI experiences to making our backend systems more robust and resilient
- Encourage AI-assisted development and innovation: Drive adoption of AI tools and practices within the team, improving productivity and experimentation while fostering critical thinking about responsible use
- Plan and deliver business impact: Partner with peers and leadership to prioritize initiatives, define success metrics, and deliver projects that advance Zapier’s mission and data maturity
- Foster a culture of learning and excellence: Run demos, retros, and design reviews that reinforce curiosity, quality, and collaboration across the broader data organization
- Our stack is best summed up by: Databricks, AWS, Python/Typescript, Kafka, dbt and Airflow
Application process
- Deadline to Apply: 30 November 2025 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 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.
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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
(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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