Senior Backend Engineer (Events)

Join Zapier as a Senior Backend Engineer (Events)

About Zapier

Zapier is on a mission to make work easier and more productive for everyone. We are a 100% remote company with teammates spanning 40 countries around the world. We integrate apps like Salesforce, Intuit, Google, and Dropbox to move data between them automatically, allowing our users to focus on their most important work.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Team Events. You will help us build and enhance foundational event and queuing services that power fantastic products at Zapier. Our primary focus is to build and support our Events system as well as other queuing solutions used by our internal teams. Our services and components are critical, run at scale, and operate as a foundation to all of Zapier.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• Contribute to data governance practices across Zapier, influencing proper data structure and data hygiene.
• Refactor or improve existing code as languages, frameworks, or techniques evolve.
• Provide feedback on tools, processes, and documentation to help us become a better, more effective organization.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the reliability and availability of our systems.

About You

• You have 4+ years of experience in software development with Python, Go, or TypeScript, with at least 2 years focused on building event/streaming systems at scale.
• Experience working with Events architectures and services based on technologies like Kafka (MSK) and Avro.
• Strong experience with AWS services, cloud computing technologies, and distributed data stores.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools and best practices for reliability and observability.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking skills, combined with excellent collaboration and communication abilities.
• A natural curiosity and eagerness to learn and explore new technologies and solutions.

Our Values

At Zapier, our values are at the heart of how we work together and how we think about our customers. We believe in collaboration, exploration, and versatility. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and equity, and we strive to create a welcoming environment for all employees.

How to Apply

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. 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.

Zapier is an equal-opportunity employer and we're excited to work with talented and empathetic people of all identities. We do not discriminate based on someone's identity in any aspect of hiring or employment as required by law and in line with our commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Equity.

Application Deadline

The anticipated application window is 30 days from the date the job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later, or if the position is filled.