Staff Engineer, Backend, Revenue

AI AT ZAPIER

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Job Posted: April 29, 2026

Updated: June 19, 2026

Location: Americas - North, Central and South America, EMEA, APAC

HI THERE!

Zapier's mission is to make automation work for everyone. That mission is funded by revenue — and every dollar of it flows through Revenue Zone. We build and operate the infrastructure behind billing, subscriptions, payments, pricing, entitlements, and checkout across everything Zapier ships: self-serve plans, enterprise contracts, and ecosystem offerings. When a customer upgrades, renews, changes plans, or pays an invoice, our systems make it happen — correctly, instantly, and at scale.

We're hiring a Staff Engineer to own the technical vision and long-term architecture for Revenue Zone. You'll define the pricing primitives, service boundaries, and data models that let Zapier ship pricing and packaging changes in days instead of months — while keeping every dollar accounted for accurately. That means designing the framework and abstractions product teams plug into so they can launch new SKUs without becoming billing experts, building configuration-driven infrastructure for pricing experimentation, and ensuring the platform evolves without foundational rewrites.

This is production-critical, finance-grade infrastructure where correctness is non-negotiable. You'll drive alignment across teams in a space defined by high ambiguity and competing constraints, working closely with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Sales. The role is partic...