Zapier is looking to build and enhance foundational event & queuing services that power fantastic products at Zapier. The primary focus is to build and support their Events system as well as other queueing solutions used by internal teams. These services and components are critical, run at scale, and operate as a foundation to all of Zapier.
Requirements
- Experience working with Events architectures and services based on technologies like Kafka (MSK) and Avro.
- Supported Events system infrastructure to ensure resiliency and up time.
- Participated in the design or maintenance of highly available, cloud-based infrastructure in AWS or another cloud offering.
- Understand how to leverage infrastructure as code tools (Terraform) and have learned best practices for reliability and observability.
- Strong experience with AWS services, cloud computing technologies, and distributed data stores.
- Experience with languages like Python or Go to create automated tools.
- Experience working with queues in the cloud or SAAS solutions. SQS experience is highly preferred.
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 as well as other queue solutions we are currently working on building.
- Contribute to data governance practices across Zapier.
- Refactor or improve existing code as languages, frameworks, or techniques evolve.
- Help the team pick appropriate tools to solve new problems as they arise.
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the reliability and availability of our systems, providing timely and effective support when issues arise.
Other
- 4+ years with software development in either Python, Go, Typescript, with at least 2 years focused on building event / streaming systems at scale.
- 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.
- SRE experience working with and supporting existing systems to ensure up time and reliability.
- Education is not a requirement for our roles; however, if you receive an offer, you will need to include your most recent educational experience as part of our background check process.
