Senior Data Engineer, Zapier
$167.4-251k
Salary shown applicable to US. For Canada: CA$167.4K – CA$251K, For UK: £105.2K – £157.8K, For Spain: €105.2K – €157.8K. Plus equity and bonus
Workflow automation service
Job no longer available
Workflow automation service
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$167.4-251k
Salary shown applicable to US. For Canada: CA$167.4K – CA$251K, For UK: £105.2K – £157.8K, For Spain: €105.2K – €157.8K. 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 bring 6+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, with a demonstrated ability to lead complex, large-scale data projects in cloud environments. You’re well-versed in modern data platforms and best practices for scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Strategic Mindset: You connect your team’s data systems to the broader company strategy, proactively identifying opportunities to add value. You’re skilled at planning future-focused projects that enhance stakeholder outcomes and align with organizational goals
- Technical Leadership: You are an expert in technical direction, including architecture, performance optimization, and improving technical processes. You make high-impact technical decisions that influence architecture and data pipeline strategy across zones, not just within your team
- Data Pipeline Expertise: You design, build, and optimize complex, scalable data pipelines that drive critical analytics and product use cases. You ensure data assets are robust, reliable, and continuously monitored for performance
- Proficient in Cloud and Distributed Systems: You have extensive hands-on experience with cloud ecosystems like AWS, GCP, or Azure and deep expertise with Databricks, Spark, or similar distributed platforms, enabling efficient and cost-effective large-scale data processing
- Advanced Software Lifecycle Management: You take responsibility for every stage of the data solution lifecycle, from design and development to deployment and continuous improvement, and support others in doing the same
- Programming Mastery: You’re highly skilled in Python or other data-centric languages and have advanced SQL capabilities for complex data transformation and querying
- Data Quality Advocate: You prioritize data integrity, using observability, testing, and monitoring to ensure quality and accountability in data pipelines. You excel in creating and maintaining frameworks that uphold these standards
- 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
- Mentorship and Development: You elevate the team’s impact by mentoring and coaching others, sharing best practices, and fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement. You help other team members achieve their goals and influence growth across teams
- 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
- In this role, you’ll play a crucial part in shaping the future of data infrastructure at Zapier, developing and implementing technical strategies that drive impactful, scalable, and reliable data solutions across the organization
- As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll lead the creation and optimization of data systems to support Zapier’s growth, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure data is trustworthy, timely, and accessible, powering strategic decision-making and user-facing features
- Drive Data Pipeline Strategy: Design, develop, and oversee robust ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks, Airflow, and cloud-native tools, supporting both product and machine learning use cases with a focus on scalability and reliability
- Lead Data Architecture Efforts: Define and refine data architecture in partnership with engineering and analytics teams, optimizing workflows, storage, and schema design to support secure and scalable data systems
- Ensure Data Quality and Observability: Develop and implement automated testing, monitoring, and validation frameworks to guarantee data integrity and detect issues proactively. You will participate in on-call rotation for data-owned services
- Optimize System Performance: Continuously tune, maintain, and optimize the performance of data workflows, leading efforts to resolve bottlenecks in data ingestion, transformation, and storage
- Build Scalable Data Platform Tools: Design reusable data platform tools and frameworks to empower other teams, establishing self-service capabilities that enhance data accessibility and usability across workflows
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Product, Analytics, and Machine Learning teams to support their data needs, helping them achieve impactful outcomes through reliable, timely data
- Mentor and Develop Team Talent: Act as a key resource for both junior and senior team members, providing guidance, feedback, and support to foster expertise and drive a culture of continuous 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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