Software Engineer, Release Engineering

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Job Posted: April 27th, 2026 Location: India

Hi there!

I'm Phil Carvalho, and I lead Release Engineering at Zapier. Our 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. I'm excited to hire a Senior Software Engineer (L4) to work on the systems that make every engineer at Zapier faster and safer.

This role sits at the intersection of software engineering and platform engineering. You'll build backend services and internal tools, but you'll also own CI/CD pipelines, release tooling, and delivery infrastructure. We're looking for engineers who write production code AND deeply understand how that code gets built, tested, and shipped.

This team is being built in the India timezone to operate independently, on top of the platform foundation provided by our SREs in cloud/infra. Our charter is the software layer of delivery. As Zapier scales its enterprise capabilities and integrates AI more deeply into the development lifecycle, the reliability and speed of our delivery systems becomes a direct lever on how fast the company can ship.

ABOUT YOU

• You build software and you understand how it gets shipped. You can write a production service end-to-end, and you can also diagnose why a CI pipeline is slow or a test suite is flaky.

• You have real depth in CI/CD systems, testing strategy, and release orchestration — not just as a user, but as someone who has built or meaningfully improved these systems.

• You have hands-on experience with platform tools such as GitLab CI, Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Terraform, or similar. You don't just use these tools — you build and improve the systems around them.