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Incident Operations Specialist

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AI at Zapier

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Job Posted: July 10th, 2026

Location: NAMER

Hi there!

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.

You’ll 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.

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What we're looking for

AI fluency (required, not optional). This is a hard requirement at point of hire, not something you'll grow into on the job. Concretely, we're looking for:

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

  • You've built AI-powered workflows that keep running when you're 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 isn't the right fit yet.

Incident response and analysis experience: You've worked in incident response, reliability, or a closely adjacent role. You've been hands-on with tools like and PagerDuty: on-call rotations, escalation paths, routing, integrations. You've 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: You're 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 doesn't 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.

What you'll do

  • 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.

Our stack

  • 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

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 we’re 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.

What this application asks

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Preferred First Name, Email, Resume, What city/country will you work from?

  • Legal First Name
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  • Preferred Last Name
  • Phone optional
  • Pronouns optional
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  • Are you legally authorized to work in that country without company support? choose one
  • How’d you hear about this role? choose one
  • Please share specific information on how you heard about this role (for example: what job board did you use, where was the job ad posted, etc.). written answer
  • What’s one way you’ve expanded your impact at work with AI — what problem were you trying to solve, why did you approach it that way, and how has your approach evolved over time? written answer
  • Have you been responsible for administering or operating an incident management platform? written answer
  • Which incident management tools have you used in production? written answer
  • At Zapier, we don't just embrace automation and Al - our mission is to help others do the same. We expect the smart use of these tools when you join us, so we understand if you used Al to shape your application. yes / no

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