Software Engineer, Release Engineering

Zapier's Release Engineering team owns the systems that move code from merge to production: CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, release orchestration, and the golden paths every engineer at Zapier relies on. This Senior Software Engineer role sits at the intersection of software engineering and platform engineering: you will build backend services and internal tools, and you will also own CI/CD pipelines, release tooling, and delivery infrastructure. The team is being built in the India timezone to operate independently on top of the platform foundation provided by the cloud and infra SREs, and its charter is the software layer of delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the CI/CD systems, release orchestration, and testing infrastructure that every Zapier engineer depends on.
• Define and evolve the golden paths for how code gets built, tested, and shipped at Zapier.
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives, from design doc through rollout and impact measurement.
• Build internal tooling and APIs that make engineers more effective and reduce time from merge to production.
• Debug complex production issues across pipelines and release systems, participate in incident response, and drive systemic improvements.
• Lead technical design discussions, write clear documentation, and mentor engineers through code reviews and design feedback.
• Partner with the cloud/infra SRE team on the boundary between platform foundation and the delivery layer on top of it.

Qualifications

• You build software and understand how it gets shipped: you can write a production service end-to-end and also diagnose why a CI pipeline is slow or a test suite is flaky.
• Real depth in CI/CD systems, testing strategy, and release orchestration, as someone who has built or meaningfully improved these systems, not just used them.
• Hands-on experience with platform tools such as GitLab CI, Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, or Terraform.
• Strong backend or full-stack fundamentals, having built and operated production APIs and services at scale in TypeScript, Node.js, Python, or equivalent.
• Ability to take loosely defined problems to production: writing design docs, defining success criteria, and following through on rollout and measurement.
• Systems thinking with downstream users and long-term maintainability in mind, active use of AI tools in your workflow, and effective async collaboration across teams.