Sr. Engineer, Backend (Functions)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Participate in customer calls, understand pain-points, and work with your peer engineers and EPD (Engineering, Product, Design) leadership to suggest possible technical solutions to the wider team.
• - Build features that allow customers to more easily handle errors in their automations by merging Zapier integrations existing error processing routines with language-native error handling.
• - Work on improving our Functions execution model, such that we can run arbitrarily long untrusted integrations safely and efficiently.
• - Build excellent migration tooling, so customers code is automatically updated as integrations change in the Zapier system.
• - Leverage our observability tooling to track and understand user pain-points. Turn these insights into actionable tasks for the team.

Required Skills

• - Strong expertise in using TypeScript and Node.js for building backend services.
• - Strong system design and architectural skills.
• - Strong communications skills, including experience talking directly to customers.
• - Experience architecting and maintaining production infrastructure in AWS.
• - Familiarity with the Python ecosystem and execution model.
• - Experience managing execution of untrusted workloads in a controlled and safe fashion.
• - Familiarity with LSP (Language Server Protocol) systems.
• - Experience with observability tooling, particularly related to operational reliability.
• - Awareness of security principles and experience securing publicly accessible sensitive systems.
• - Experience building event driven systems.
• - Expertise in AWS Lambda, Docker, and other containerization tooling.

Benefits

• - Competitive and equitable compensation
• - Remote work flexibility
• - Opportunities for growth and development
• - Inclusive and diverse work environment