Sr. Software Engineer, AI Capabilities (Full Stack)
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 170 - 225
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
AI at Zapier
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Job Posted: 11/4/2025
Location: Americas
Hi there!
Zapier is looking for an Sr. Engineer (backend-leaning fullstack) to join our AI Capabilities team. The AI Capabilities team is responsible for building Zapiers AI platform. They provide the orchestration tooling memory model gateway code execution and observability foundations that power every AI experience across Zapier.
Our mission is to help product teams ship high-quality trustworthy and easy-to-use AI features quickly and confidently by consolidating core AI backend services into a set of well-designed APIs backed by shared scalable infrastructure. We focus on building fewer things at a higher level of quality creating a platform that is intuitive for developers and rock-solid for users.
As a Sr. Engineer on the AI Capabilities team youll work across our backend and frontend surfaces to build durable systems that enable LLMs agents and AI-powered workflows to operate seamlessly inside millions of customer automations. Youll shape the patterns tools and infrastructure that define how AI behaves across Zapier in productionnot just in prototypes but at real scale.
Were a globally distributed team working together to make Zapier the trusted go-to partner for business automation. If youre interested in advancing your career at a fast-growing profitable impact-driven company then read on
About You
Were looking for backend engineers who bring:
5 years of experience building and maintaining backend systems in production
Experience with Typescript or JavaScript and Python (Django preferred) ideally
Experience building integrations APIs SDKs or development platforms
Experience building AI tools or consuming AI products as a power user (configuring agents MCP servers LLMs etc.)
Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools like Grafana Prometheus Databricks or Datadog
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and CI/CD pipelines
Some familiarity with event-based architectures and tools like Kafka SQS or similar
Some familiarity experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL PostgreSQL) and performance tuning
You value collaboration pairing and async communication in a remote team environment
Youre 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. Youre comfortable asking questions digging in and figuring things out
Youve used AI tooling for work or personal useor 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
How We Work
Zapier is a 100% remote team and has been since day one. We value asynchronous communication transparent collaboration and work-life harmony. We believe in building systems that scaleboth in code and in culture.
If youre passionate about shaping the future of AI-driven automation and want to work at a company that cares deeply about its people and its product wed love to hear from you.
Application Deadline:
The anticipated application window is 30 days from the date job is posted unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later or if the position is filled.
Even though were an all-remote company we still need to be thoughtful about where we have Zapiens working. Check out this resource for a list of countries where we currently cannot have Zapiens permanently working.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- Data Structures
- JavaScript
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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