Senior Backend Engineer, Edge - Zapier

Overview

Zapier is on a mission to make automation work for everyone. As a Senior Backend Engineer on Team Edge, you will be at the forefront of building internal automation services that power fantastic products. Our services are critical, run at scale, and operate as a foundation to all of Zapier. This role offers the opportunity to directly impact how our customers can be more productive by building, supporting, and scaling triggers and actions, the foundational building blocks of Zapier.

Responsibilities

Work with AWS services like SQS, Redis, S3, Lambda, and MSK to build scalable solutions that process millions of requests.
Use Terraform to maintain and build our infrastructure.
Refactor or improve existing code as languages, frameworks, or techniques evolve.
Help the team pick appropriate tools to solve new problems as they arise.
Work closely with our product, design, and frontend teams to create amazing and intuitive experiences that make it effortless to connect different apps together.
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.
Ship to hundreds of thousands of users every day while having lots of autonomy in terms of code and feature ownership.
Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the reliability and availability of our systems, providing timely and effective support when issues arise.

Qualifications

Over 4 years of experience in backend development, with at least 2 years dedicated to building distributed, scalable web applications.
Robust expertise in using Python to build web services.
Proficient in working with AWS and other cloud technologies.
Hands-on experience with event-based technologies like Kafka or SQS.
Skilled in database performance optimization and query tuning with MySQL.
Familiarity with caching solutions such as Memcached or Redis.
Experience with performance monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and Datadog.
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code using GitLab and Terraform.
Proficiency in implementing and securing authentication and authorization mechanisms (OAuth, JWT, RBAC).

How to Apply

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 encourage you to apply even if your skills and experiences don’t exactly match the job description. Please 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.

Benefits
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Remote work flexibility
Opportunity to work with a global team
Inclusive and diverse work environment

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