Software Engineer, Fullstack or Backend
Zapier’s Workflow Zone is responsible for the core engine that powers our automation platform. As more teams and organizations depend on Zapier to automate critical workflows, we’re investing in scaling the capabilities, reliability, and intelligence of our core product experience.
We’re hiring Backend Engineers and Fullstack Engineers (backend-leaning) to join several high-impact teams in the Workflow Zone. If you’re passionate about building robust systems, enabling advanced user workflows, and shaping the future of automation, we’d love to hear from you.
The Workflow Zone is where Zapier’s automation magic happens. This zone owns the product experience and execution engine behind creating, running, and debugging workflows (Zaps). We’re focused on building powerful, flexible tools that help individuals and teams automate their work with speed and confidence.
As automation use cases grow more complex—especially for Enterprise users—we’re evolving the platform to support more sophisticated logic, scalable execution, and AI-native experiences. This means:
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Building intuitive and resilient workflow authoring experiences
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Expanding execution capabilities and logic primitives
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Introducing AI-powered tools for creation and troubleshooting
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Improving reliability, observability, and control across the system
We’re currently hiring for several teams across the zone, including:
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Editor Creation
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Troubleshooting
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Runner
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Workflow Capabilities
The Editor Creation team is reinventing how users build automations—laying the groundwork for a faster, smarter, and more intuitive workflow authoring experience. Rather than iterating on legacy patterns, this team is redesigning the editor's foundations to support new paradigms like AI-assisted creation and more advanced configuration options.
Requirements
We’re looking for experienced engineers who bring:
5+ years of professional experience developing software, with a strong emphasis on backend systems.
Backend experience in Python and Django, building APIs and backend services that are reliable and performant.
For Full Stack roles: Solid experience with React (and ideally frameworks like Next.js); you’re comfortable contributing to frontend systems when needed.
Familiarity with relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL, and an understanding of how to design efficient data models.
Comfort working with APIs and integrations, including RESTful APIs, webhooks, and data transformation across services.
A practical mindset around observability and performance, with familiarity in tools like Datadog, Graylog, or similar.
You value collaboration, pairing, and async communication in a remote team environment.
You’re customer-focused. Whether internal or external, you care about solving real problems and creating great experiences.
You love learning and are curious about ambiguous or novel problems. You’re comfortable asking questions, digging in, and figuring things out.
You’re versatile and comfortable navigating across codebases, services, or developer workflows to help the team succeed.
You’ve used AI tooling for work or personal use—or you are willing to dive in and learn fast. You explore new tools, workflows, and ideas to make things more efficient, and are eager to deepen your understanding of AI and use it regularly.
Benefits
Compensation
United States - L3 Software Engineer
$140K – $185K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
Canada - L3 Software Engineer
CA$140K – CA$185K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
United States - L2 Software Engineer
$116.6K – $153.1K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
Canada - L2 Software Engineer
CA$116.6K – CA$153.1K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
Note: For compensation bands in countries outside the US and Canada, your recruiter will discuss these options with you during the initial call.
We believe all Zapiens should be rewarded competitively and equitably, using practices that are simple and transparent. This philosophy ensures we’re able to find, grow, and retain exceptional people from a broad range of backgrounds. Here’s how we define our compensation principles:
Competitive: Zapier pays well among the technology sector.
Equitable: Consistent pay practices; Pay for impact
Simple: Pay is well understood, and pay practices are built for scale.
Transparent: Zapiens know how pay works, including how their pay is determined.
A Candidate's compensation package is finalized once the interview process is concluded and accounts for demonstrated experience, job knowledge, skills, abilities, and internal equity. We use a business impact approach to base pay, which means we set pay for all Zapiens based on their demonstrated impact on Zapier’s success. In alignment with that philosophy, the upper half of a pay range is typically reserved for individuals who have consistently demonstrated a high impact in their current role and level while at Zapier.
Responsibilities
In this role, you’ll:
Redesign and modernize the Zap creation experience with performance, clarity, and scale in mind
Build flexible UI components and configuration flows that support both no-code and AI-assisted automation
Contribute to foundational infrastructure that enables new editor paradigms and future UX modularity
Collaborate across Product and Design to streamline the journey from idea to working automation
The Troubleshooting team ensures automations run smoothly—and when they don’t, users have the tools to understand why. This team is focused on preventing, detecting, and resolving workflow errors with clarity and speed.
In this role, you’ll:
Build systems that proactively detect, surface, and explain errors in user workflows
Design clear, actionable debugging experiences to help users fix issues faster
Collaborate with Support to turn customer pain points into product improvements
Strengthen the zone’s culture of reliability, observability, and resilience
If you enjoy solving messy problems, closing feedback loops, and turning complexity into clarity for users, this is a team where you’ll thrive.
The Runner team is responsible for reliably executing Zaps—fast. We’re focused on the core infrastructure that powers Zapier’s workflows, including scaling for high volume and reducing latency across millions of executions daily.
In this role, you’ll:
Develop and maintain Zapier’s execution engine, scaling it to handle millions of daily runs
Improve system performance, reduce latency, and strengthen failure handling
Design and implement execution primitives that power reliable automation
Collaborate across infrastructure, product, and platform teams on core system design
This is a foundational team at the platform layer—ideal for engineers who like deep technical challenges and shipping resilient, high-scale services.
The Workflow Capabilities team expands what workflows can do. We’re building system-level enhancements like branching logic, enterprise-aware rollouts, and smarter automation primitives that support more dynamic use cases.
In this role, you’ll:
Build foundational logic tools like branching, conditional execution, and looping
Design and maintain system-level Zaps that power internal automation at Zapier
Partner with teams across the company to deliver reusable workflow primitives
Enhance configuration and control surfaces to support power users and enterprise scenarios
The application process will continue on the employer's website.