Incident Operations Specialist

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Job Posted: July 10th 2026

Location: NAMER

As Zapier expands into the enterprise market and accelerates AI-driven development incident management is increasingly critical to customer trust and operational reliability. The Incident Operations Specialist keeps that program running day to day through reliable tooling clean data repeatable workflows and AI-powered automation.

Youll report to the Incident Program Manager and help shape how Zapier responds to incidents learns from them and supports the people doing that work. This is an operations role with technical depth not a software engineering role. We care most about two things: proven incident management experience and genuine AI fluency. The rest is coachable.

• Our Commitment to Applicants

• Culture and Values at Zapier

• Zapier Guide to Remote Work

• Zapier Code of Conduct

• Diversity and Inclusivity at Zapier

AI fluency (required not optional). This is a hard requirement at point of hire not something youll grow into on the job. Concretely were looking for:

• You use AI-native tools (Cursor Claude Copilot or similar) as your default working environment not as a novelty.

• Youve built AI-powered workflows that keep running when youre offline not one-off prompts. You can describe two or three specific examples what they replaced and what verification you built in.

• You can quantify how AI has changed your throughput or quality.

• You know when AI output needs checking especially under incident-time pressure and you have a point of view on how you calibrate trust.

• Please note: If your AI usage is mostly occasional prompting of a chat interface this role isnt the right fit yet.

Incident response and analysis experience: Youve worked in incident response reliability or a closely adjacent role. Youve been hands-on with tools like and PagerDuty: on-call rotations escalation paths routing integrations. Youve analysed incidents after the fact spotted patterns across many of them and turned that into program-level improvements.

Technical depth to build your own tools: Youre not a software engineer but you can write SQL against Databricks wire up API integrations build Slack workflows and prototype lightweight AI agents. If a workflow doesnt exist you build it. If a dashboard is broken you fix it.

How you work: Async-first and visible: status in public channels no need to chase. You close the loop prioritise ruthlessly and push back on off-program requests rather than getting pulled thin. You translate technical detail into plain language for Support GTM and leadership without losing the signal.

• Own incident tooling operations. Keep PagerDuty on-call rotations escalation paths and Slack-based workflows configured reliable and integrated. Fix what breaks.

• Build and maintain AI-powered workflows. Thread summarisation postmortem drafting follow-up triage severity classification data hygiene. Turn one-off experiments into durable systems.

• Analyze incidents and drive improvement. Participate in incidents and postmortems spot recurring patterns surface program-level friction with recommended fixes not just problems.

• Operate data and reporting. Build and troubleshoot dashboards and reports (Databricks Grafana Looker). Guard data quality and metric accuracy.

• Sustain the IC community. Grow the community of practice for Incident Commanders and Support Leads. Coach responders on what good looks like.

• Keep documentation usable under pressure. Playbooks templates guides. Flag gaps where program-level guidance needs updating.

• Incident: PagerDuty Slack

• Data and observability: Databricks Grafana Looker SQL Datadog Prometheus Opensearch Graylog

• AI: Cursor Zapier AI Claude or equivalent

• Collaboration: GitLab Coda Google Workspace Jira Zendesk

At Zapier we believe that diverse perspectives and experiences make us better which is why we have a non-standard application process designed to promote inclusion and equity. Were looking for the best fit for each of our roles regardless of the type of companies in your background so we encourage you to apply even if your skills and experiences dont exactly match the job description. All we ask is that you answer a few in-depth questions in our application that would typically be asked at the start of an interview process. This helps speed things up by letting us get to know you and your skillset a bit better right out of the gate. Please be sure to answer each question; the resume and CV fields are optional.

Education is not a requirement for our roles; however if you receive an offer you will need to include your most recent educational experience as part of our background check process.

After you apply you are going to hear back from useven if we dont see an immediate fit with our fact throughout the process we strive to never go more than seven days without letting you know the status of your application. We know well make mistakes from time to time so if you ever have questions about where you stand or about the process just ask your recruiter!

Zapier is an equal-opportunity employer and were excited to work with talented and empathetic people of all identities. Zapier does not discriminate based on someones identity in any aspect of hiring or employment as required by law and in line with our commitment to Diversity Inclusion Belonging and Equity. Our code of conduct provides a beacon for the kind of company we strive to be and we celebrate our differences because those differences are what allow us to make a product that serves a global user base. Zapier will consider all qualified applicants including those with criminal histories consistent with applicable laws.

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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.

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Required Experience:

IC