Who you are

• Experienced Data Engineer: You have 6+ years of experience designing, building and maintaining data systems and distributed systems in the cloud. You’ve led technical direction or architecture for complex data systems and can balance scale, performance, and cost
• Strong Engineering Foundation: You bring deep expertise in software engineering — designing APIs, data services, and distributed systems using robust testing, CI/CD, and observability practices
• Expert in Databricks & Distributed Processing: You’re highly proficient in Databricks, Spark, or similar platforms, using them to efficiently process large-scale data and optimize for performance and cost
• 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
• Drive Observability and Operational Excellence: Define SLAs, build observability into pipelines and services, and establish standards for alerting, documentation, and on-call reliability for data systems
• Collaborative and Forward-Looking: You communicate clearly in writing, mentor others and set strong technical and data standards that raise the bar across teams. You partner with engineering, analytics, ML, and AI teams, embracing innovation and AI to improve how we build software. You balance pragmatism with impact, shipping solutions that simply work and evolving them over time

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 Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer, you’ll architect and implement scalable 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 other engineers, product managers, and data teams to make high-quality data accessible and actionable across Zapier
• Architect and Scale Data Systems: Lead the design and evolution of scalable, secure, and reliable data infrastructure and APIs that power user-facing product use cases
• Define Data Architecture and Standards: Drive collaboration 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
• Drive Standards, Quality, and Governance: Design reliable, observable data systems with strong testing and validation. Help establish best practices, golden paths, and CI/CD workflows that uphold data quality, security, and continuous improvement
• Performance Tuning, Maintenance and Optimization: Establish frameworks for continous monitoring and optimization of the performance of data workflows, identifying and resolving bottlenecks in data ingestion, transformation, and storage. You will participate and improve the on-call rotation for data-owned services
• Advance Reusability and Enablement: Identify the opportunity and develop shared tooling, frameworks, and libraries that empower other engineering teams to self-serve data and build on top of common data patterns safely and efficiently
• Influence Technical Direction: Partner with the Engineering, Product and Data teams to define roadmaps and contribute to Zapier’s long-term data architecture and strategy
• Lead and Mentor: Provide technical mentorship to data engineers and cross-functional peers. Review designs, guide implementation, and promote an engineering culture focused on quality, user impact, and ownership

The application process

• Deadline to Apply: November 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM UTC

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