Backend Engineer, Zapier
Events
$116.6-185k
Canada: CA$116.6K - CA$185K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus. Salary dependent on location
Workflow automation service
Be an early applicant
Workflow automation service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$116.6-185k
Canada: CA$116.6K - CA$185K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus. Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Zapier's mission is to Make Automation Work for Everyone!
Role
Who you are
- You have 4+ years with software development in either Python, Go, Typescript, with at least 2 years focused on building event / streaming systems at scale. Your depth of expertise makes you a valuable asset to our engineering team
- Experience working with Events architectures and services based on technologies like Kafka (MSK) and Avro. You have supported Events system infrastructure to ensure resiliency and up time
- Participated in the design or maintenance of highly available, cloud-based infrastructure in AWS or another cloud offering. You understand how to leverage infrastructure as code tools (Terraform) and have learned best practices for reliability and observability
- Strong experience with AWS services, cloud computing technologies, and distributed data stores
- Experience with languages like Python or Go to create automated tools. You believe in hands-off deployments and infrastructure as code
- You value collaboration. You understand that building modern software is a team sport, and you enjoy working as part of a tight-knit team. You’re happy to pitch in and help the team, whether by reviewing code, pairing on a tricky problem, or just thinking about how to solve the challenges we’re facing
- You value exploration and versatility. You are comfortable working on problems that may not be well defined. You are eager to jump in to learn, research, and propose options to consider when solving a hard problem that the team has not faced before. You love researching new technology, experimenting with new ideas, and driving forward with implementation details
- You can balance lots of concerns. You will manage incoming work, prioritize tasks effectively, and stay organized. Your role is crucial in meeting project/internal customer demands and delivering reliable and well tested solutions all while working in a fast-paced environment
- You advocate for the user. You have a keen eye for great design, and you’re empathetic to the needs of the end-user. When you see users struggling to succeed you take it as a personal challenge to understand why and help the team build a better product
- You embody our values. At Zapier, our values are at the heart of how we work together and how we think about our customers. In our remote setting, they help develop trust and ensure we work and collaborate to democratize automation
- If you’re passionate about shaping the future of AI-driven automation, and want to work at a company that cares deeply about its people and its product, we’d love to hear from you
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join Team Events and help us build and enhance foundational event & queuing services that power fantastic products at Zapier
- Our primary focus is to build and support our Events system at Zapier as well as other queueing solutions used by our internal teams at Zapier. Our services and components are critical, run at scale, and operate as a foundation to all of Zapier. Come join us on this mission!
- Work with AWS services like MSK, SQS, Redis, S3, Lambda and Aurora to build scalable solutions that process billions of events per day. Use Terraform to maintain and build our infrastructure
- Build toolkits, libraries, and scripts to ease challenges faced by other teams at Zapier when they wish to emit to and consume from the Events system as well as other queue solutions we are currently working on building
- Contribute to data governance practices across Zapier. Influence proper data structure and data hygiene
- Refactor or improve existing code as languages, frameworks, or techniques evolve. Help the team pick appropriate tools to solve new problems as they arise
- Provide feedback on tools, processes, and documentation in place to help us become a better, more effective organization
- Work with your colleagues to develop new skills, through code review, discussions and mentoring. Help us all become better engineers and humans
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the reliability and availability of our systems, providing timely and effective support when issues arise
- You’ll also have the opportunity to specialize in a variety of areas of the Zapier codebase. Focusing on a specialization will not limit your growth at Zapier as we believe that each engineer brings a unique perspective and can contribute in all areas. We encourage collaboration and will frequently have engineers contribute across teams to assist with projects as needed
Application process
- At Zapier, we believe that diverse perspectives and experiences make us better, which is why we have a non-standard application process designed to promote inclusion and equity
- We're looking for the best fit for each of our roles, regardless of the type of companies in your background, so we encourage you to apply even if your skills and experiences don’t exactly match the job description
- All we ask is that you answer a few in-depth questions in our application that would typically be asked at the start of an interview process
- This helps speed things up by letting us get to know you and your skillset a bit better right out of the gate
- Please be sure to answer each question; the resume and CV fields are optional
- Education is not a requirement for our roles; however, if you receive an offer, you will need to include your most recent educational experience as part of our background check process
- After you apply, you are going to hear back from us—even if we don’t see an immediate fit with our team
- In fact, throughout the process, we strive to never go more than seven days without letting you know the status of your application
- We know we’ll make mistakes from time to time, so if you ever have questions about where you stand or about the process, just ask your recruiter!
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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