Senior Engineer, Database Reliability

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🌐 United States, Canada, +2 more countries – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote

💵 $174.2k - $261.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Zapier

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2011

☁️ SaaS

⚡ Productivity

🤝 B2B

💰 Secondary Market on 2021-04

SaaS • Productivity • B2B

Zapier is a leading automation platform that enables users to connect and automate workflows across more than 7,000 applications. Known for its no-code approach, Zapier empowers individuals and teams to streamline tasks by creating automated processes called "Zaps," which link triggers and actions between different apps. The platform is trusted by millions of users globally, including 87% of Forbes Cloud 100 companies, offering solutions that enhance productivity and efficiency in various business functions.

📋 Description

• Own reliability of the Redis Enterprise and AWS ElastiCache caching layer, including capacity planning, failover behavior, upgrade strategy, and healthy usage patterns • Participate in the on-call rotation and escalate data-layer issues during production incidents • Support internal customers with slow-query troubleshooting and storage-use advice • Convert recurring support questions into documentation and tooling • Manage database and cache infrastructure as code using Terraform modules and provisioning workflows • Build database and cache templates and standards in the internal platform’s golden path • Build and maintain data-layer dashboards, alerts, and SLOs • Improve performance and resilience across MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis fleets • Advise development teams on architecture, database engine selection, and caching placement • Consult product teams on schema design, query patterns, and capacity planning • Lead data-layer design reviews and mentor engineers • Create documentation, patterns, and runbooks for database and cache operations • Set direction for Zapier’s data infrastructure and grow the DBRE practice

🎯 Requirements

• At least 7 years in systems administration, systems engineering, or software development • At least 4 years running production relational databases • Deep expertise in MySQL or PostgreSQL and working knowledge of the other • Knowledge of database-engine ecosystem extensions and tools • Experience designing and operating caching at scale, including Redis • Experience designing and maintaining highly available, cloud-based database systems in AWS or another cloud platform • Experience managing infrastructure with Terraform or similar IaC tooling • Comfort operating stateful services alongside Kubernetes or other distributed systems • Experience implementing metrics, logging, and alerting using tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or CloudWatch • Experience with query performance data, replication lag, and cache hit rates • Experience participating in an on-call rotation for production data systems • Experience reviewing designs, mentoring engineers, documenting practices, and building automation/tools • Ability to use AI tools responsibly for automation code, query plans, logs, runbooks, and incident investigation • Education is not a requirement • Must be authorized to work from the chosen home location; Zapier does not sponsor visas or transfers

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Bonus • Remote work • Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities • No more than seven days without application-status updates during the process