Data Engineer, Zapier
$141-211.7k
Salary applicable to US. For Canada: CA$141.1K – CA$211.7K. For UK: £88.6K – £133K. For Ireland or Spain: €75.8K – €113.8K. Offers equity and Bonus
Workflow automation service
Open for applications
Workflow automation service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$141-211.7k
Salary applicable to US. For Canada: CA$141.1K – CA$211.7K. For UK: £88.6K – £133K. For Ireland or Spain: €75.8K – €113.8K. Offers 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 4+ years of experience building and maintaining scalable, reliable data pipelines and infrastructure in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure). You apply best practices for performance and scalability across modern data platforms
- Strong Engineering Foundation: You bring a solid background in software engineering and backend systems, designing APIs and data services that power product use cases. You apply engineering rigor to build robust, maintainable data systems
- Databricks & Distributed Processing Expertise: You’re highly skilled in Databricks, Spark, or similar distributed processing platforms and use them to process large datasets efficiently and cost-effectively
- 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
- Commitment to Quality and Observability: You care deeply about data reliability and observability. You use testing, monitoring, and alerting to ensure data quality, accuracy, and lineage across pipelines
- Collaborative and Forward-Looking: You communicate clearly in writing, enjoy sharing knowledge with teammates, and embrace innovation and AI to improve how we build software. You balance pragmatism with action, shipping solutions that simply work and iterating as needed
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 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 Data Engineer on our team, you’ll build and scale the 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 product and engineering teams to make data more reliable, discoverable, and actionable, helping us use data not just for insights, but to directly improve how our users experience Zapier
- Build and Scale Data Services: Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs that directly change the product experiences for our users
- Collaborate on Data Architecture and Models: Partner 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
- Contribute to Standards, Quality, and Governance: Build reliable, observable data systems with strong testing and validation. Champion best practices, golden paths, and CI/CD workflows that uphold data quality, security, and continuous improvement
- Performance Tuning, Maintenance and Optimization: Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of data workflows, identifying and resolving bottlenecks in data ingestion, transformation, and storage. You will participate in on-call rotation for data-owned services
- Develop Reusable Engineering Patterns: Design and implement scalable, reusable engineering patterns and frameworks that enable other engineers to self-serve data capabilities safely and efficiently. You’ll empower teams to integrate and utilize data within their systems with minimal dependency on the data engineering team
- Support Cross-Functional Projects: Work closely with Product, Analytics, and Machine Learning teams to support their data needs, helping them achieve their goals through reliable and insightful data
- Mentor and Share Knowledge: Act as a resource for junior team members, offering guidance and knowledge-sharing to elevate team expertise and contribute to a culture of learning
Application process
- Deadline to Apply: 30 November 2025 at 05:00 GMT
- 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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