SQL 2025 Jobs

Go to the Steps section of your job, and verify that the correct step is selected as the start step.

Note that the first step is step 1, not 0.

Shown here with the default syspolicy_purge_history job.

When you start jobs manually, you also manually select the step to start it on (Start job on step), which explains how you wouldn't see this failure mode when manually starting your job.