Zapier is looking for a Backend Engineer to join Team Events 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 and other queueing solutions used by internal teams, which are critical, run at scale, and operate as a foundation to all of Zapier.
Requirements
- Experience working with event architectures and services based on technologies like Kafka (MSK) and Avro.
- Supported event-system infrastructure to ensure resiliency and uptime.
- Participated in the design or maintenance of highly available, cloud-based infrastructure in AWS or another cloud provider.
- 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.
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.
- You value collaboration.
- You value exploration and versatility.
- You can balance lots of concerns.
- You advocate for the user.
