Engineering Manager, State (Stateful Services)

Zapier is on a mission to make automation accessible to everyone, empowering people and businesses to be more efficient and productive. With millions of people benefiting from automation, we're excited to keep expanding our product and team!

We’re looking for an experienced and strategic Engineering Manager to lead our State team—the group responsible for Zapier’s data storage infrastructure. This role is critical to maintaining customer trust by ensuring our systems are scalable, reliable, and aligned with broader company goals.

You’ll lead a senior, high-performing team that owns and evolves Zapier’s data stores—including MySQL, Postgres, ElastiCache, and Redis. As their manager, you’ll set direction, drive execution, and collaborate cross-functionally to enable the platform capabilities Zapier needs as we grow.

About the Role

The State team advises engineering teams across Zapier on how to design stateful services, helps anticipate and resolve storage scalability challenges, and ensures data infrastructure supports the needs of the business. With no dedicated Product Manager in this space, the Engineering Manager plays a dual role—providing both strategic and operational leadership.

This is a hands-on management role focused on:

• Setting technical direction and long-term vision for the team and infrastructure.
  Driving initiatives like data migrations, scaling strategies, and infrastructure modernization.

• Partnering with senior ICs to turn high-level platform goals into actionable engineering work.

• Ensuring Zapier’s database systems are reliable, performant, and ready to meet emerging needs like data residency and enterprise growth.

If you're eager to lead high-impact projects at a fast-growing, profitable, and remote-first company, read on!

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