Sr. Software Engineer, Workflow (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 a Sr. Backend Engineer to join the Runner team in our 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: Building intuitive and resilient workflow authoring experiences; Expanding execution capabilities and logic primitives; Introducing AI-powered tools for creation and troubleshooting; Improving reliability, observability, and control across the system. 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. This is a foundational team at the platform layer—ideal for engineers who like deep technical challenges and shipping resilient, high-scale services.