Senior Data Engineer, Zapier
$170.7-256.1k
+ Equity and bonus
Workflow automation service
Be an early applicant
Workflow automation service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$170.7-256.1k
+ Equity and bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
Zapier's mission is to Make Automation Work for Everyone!
Role
Who you are
- Experienced Data Engineer: You have 6+ years of experience designing, building and maintaining data systems and distributed systems in the cloud. You’ve led technical direction or architecture for complex data systems and can balance scale, performance, and cost
- Strong Engineering Foundation: You bring deep expertise in software engineering — designing APIs, data services, and distributed systems using robust testing, CI/CD, and observability practices
- Expert in Databricks & Distributed Processing: You’re highly proficient in Databricks, Spark, or similar platforms, using them to efficiently process large-scale data and optimize for performance and cost
- Programming and Data Skills: You’re proficient in Python and/or Typescript, and strong in SQL. You follow best practices to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code throughout the full software development lifecycle
- Drive Observability and Operational Excellence: Define SLAs, build observability into pipelines and services, and establish standards for alerting, documentation, and on-call reliability for data systems
- Collaborative and Forward-Looking: You communicate clearly in writing, mentor others and set strong technical and data standards that raise the bar across teams. You partner with engineering, analytics, ML, and AI teams, embracing innovation and AI to improve how we build software. You balance pragmatism with impact, shipping solutions that simply work and evolving them over time
What the job involves
- Are you passionate about leveraging data to transform software products? We’re excited to invite you to join the Zapier Data team as a Senior Data Engineer! In this role, you’ll help shape the future of how data is used in Zapier products, working with our modern tech stack to build robust APIs and enhance data access across our Build organization, by building as well as enabling others
- As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll architect and implement scalable data systems that power key parts of Zapier’s product — from personalization and information retrieval for AI systems to usage analytics and billing. You’ll work closely with other engineers, product managers, and data teams to make high-quality data accessible and actionable across Zapier
- Architect and Scale Data Systems: Lead the design and evolution of scalable, secure, and reliable data infrastructure and APIs that power user-facing product use cases
- Define Data Architecture and Standards: Drive collaboration with engineering and analytics teams to optimize storage, processing workflows, and database schemas. Define data models and contracts to ensure consistency, accessibility, and scalability across systems
- Drive Standards, Quality, and Governance: Design reliable, observable data systems with strong testing and validation. Help establish best practices, golden paths, and CI/CD workflows that uphold data quality, security, and continuous improvement
- Performance Tuning, Maintenance and Optimization: Establish frameworks for continous monitoring and optimization of the performance of data workflows, identifying and resolving bottlenecks in data ingestion, transformation, and storage. You will participate and improve the on-call rotation for data-owned services
- Advance Reusability and Enablement: Identify the opportunity and develop shared tooling, frameworks, and libraries that empower other engineering teams to self-serve data and build on top of common data patterns safely and efficiently
- Influence Technical Direction: Partner with the Engineering, Product and Data teams to define roadmaps and contribute to Zapier’s long-term data architecture and strategy
- Lead and Mentor: Provide technical mentorship to data engineers and cross-functional peers. Review designs, guide implementation, and promote an engineering culture focused on quality, user impact, and ownership
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
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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