174K–261K USD / year
Sr. Engineer, Database Reliability
DevOpsRemote — NAMER, EMEA
Published on 2026-10-19
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About this role
Lead reliability and evolution of Zapier’s database and caching infrastructure. Set operational standards, improve performance and resilience, and help product teams use the data platform safely and effectively.
About the company
Zapier is a web-based automation tool that connects various applications, enabling users to automate workflows and streamline processes without requiring coding skills. The company serves individuals and businesses looking to enhance productivity through integration and automation solutions.
The team
State team, responsible for the platform behind Zapier’s stateful services.
Stack
MySQLPostgreSQLRedisAWS ElastiCacheRedis EnterpriseAWSTerraformKubernetes
What you'll do
- Own cache reliability, capacity planning, failover, and upgrade strategy.
- Participate in the production data-systems on-call rotation and escalate incidents.
- Manage database and cache infrastructure through Terraform and improve provisioning workflows.
- Build platform templates, dashboards, alerts, and SLOs for data services.
- Improve performance and resilience across MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis fleets.
- Advise product teams on database selection, schema design, queries, caching, and capacity planning.
- Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and develop operational documentation and runbooks.
What we're looking for
- At least 7 years in systems administration, systems engineering, or software development, including 4 years operating production relational databases.
- Deep expertise in MySQL or PostgreSQL and working knowledge of the other.
- Experience designing and maintaining highly available cloud database systems and managing infrastructure with Terraform or similar IaC tools.
- Understanding of Redis-style caching and operating stateful services alongside Kubernetes or other distributed systems.
- Experience implementing observability for data systems, including metrics, logs, alerts, query performance, replication lag, and cache hit rates.
- Able to automate systems work, write code, support incidents, and partner effectively with product teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with both Redis Enterprise and AWS ElastiCache.
- Experience using AI tools responsibly for automation, query analysis, runbooks, and incident investigation.
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus