Senior Engineer, Zapier

• You're an experienced database technologist with a background in PostgreSQL. You have at least 7 years of experience in systems administration, systems engineering, or software development, with at least 4 years of experience building and maintaining data services on PostgreSQL. You’re familiar with PostgreSQL ecosystem of extensions and third-party tools, and have leveraged them to build production systems
• You know the cloud. You've designed and maintained highly available, cloud-based database systems in AWS or another cloud platform. We use tools like Postgres, MySQL, and Redis
• You can code. You're comfortable automating solutions and building tools that eliminate repetitive tasks. You're not afraid to delve into application code to fix a bug or to launch a backend service to address a gap in our data management strategy
• You can solve complex systems challenges. You take ownership of difficult problems, understand how to improve performance, and help uncover opportunities for improvement. You've worked on issues where “just throw more hardware at it” isn't enough for the system to scale
• You're a great communicator. Not only do you know how to share your knowledge with the team and document things well so they can be consumed asynchronous (we do this a lot as a remote company), but you know how to communicate effectively with software and support teams
• You value our values. At Zapier, our values are at the heart of how we work together and how we think about our customers. In our remote setting, they help develop trust and ensure we work together and collaborate to democratize automation. You see how these values can empower meaningful work, you thrive in a collaborative setting, you are eager to continue growing, and you're excited to be part of the team

• Identifying and implementing strategies to improve performance and resilience. Our application is continually growing and we need your help to keep scaling
• Working with development teams to make architectural decisions about new services and new technologies. Many of our new services use Postgres and teams need your help understanding how to best use it
• Steamlining how developers get from zero to a scalable, performant, and secure database, so that they can focus on building great services
• Monitoring use of our data layer and advising teams on how to use storage in a healthy and scalable way
• Acting as a point of escalation for data-layer problems during production incidents
• And more!

• 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
• 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

• 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

Total funding: $1.3m

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.