Senior Engineer, Zapier
Intelligence, Detection, and Response
$170.7-256.1k
+ Offers Equity & Offers Bonus
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Workflow automation service
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Workflow automation service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$170.7-256.1k
+ Offers Equity & Offers Bonus
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Zapier's mission is to Make Automation Work for Everyone!
Role
Who you are
- Strategic Vision: You can define and deliver a program from the ground up, setting direction, executing plans, and tracking results
- Collaboration: You collaborate with teams across engineering, platform, and security to close gaps and strengthen our defensive posture
- Technical Skills: You write Python code, craft and tune detection logic, and work hands-on with SIEM platforms to improve coverage and accuracy
- Eye for Improvement: You design processes that work across the company, automate repetitive tasks, and use metrics to guide improvements
- Incident Experience: You can lead complex incident investigations, coordinating response and ensuring learnings turn into long-term fixes
- Good Communicator: You tailor your message for engineers, leaders, and other stakeholders to make security actions clear and achievable
- Remote-Ready: You use asynchronous communication effectively with a globally-distributed team, and know how to keep projects moving without constant meetings
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an IDR Engineer who can lead and grow two connected areas: vulnerability management and detection engineering
- In this position, you’ll set the vision for how we identify and remediate risks, create and refine security detections, help manage our SIEM, and step in to run complex incidents
- The role combines program leadership with deep technical work, and its impact will reach across multiple teams and functions
- Develop the vulnerability management program: setting strategy, selecting tools, and building workflows for identification, prioritization, and remediation
- Write and maintain high-quality detections, including Python-based scripts, enrichment logic, and automated alert pipelines
- Help manage and improve our SIEM, ensuring detections are relevant, accurate, and cover the right areas
- Run and contribute to security incidents, taking the lead on critical events and supporting investigations from start to finish
- Automate key operational tasks related to vulnerability tracking, detection tuning, and response actions
- Engineer solutions that provide teams with tools, dashboards, and clear guidance to enable faster and more effective remediation
- Report on progress with metrics like time to remediation, detection-to-response speed, and alert fidelity
- You’ll play a pivotal role in how Zapier finds and fixes vulnerabilities while also sharpening our ability to detect and respond to threats in real time
- You’ll work with smart, supportive teammates who value both strategy and execution, and you’ll have the freedom to design solutions that make a lasting difference in our security posture
Application process
- Deadline to Apply: September 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM UTC
- Job Posted: 08/15/2025
- The anticipated application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later, or if the position is filled
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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Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2012
$1.3m
SEED
Total funding: $1.3m
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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