Staff Software Engineer

You'll have a high level of autonomy and trust, with the freedom to decide how to approach implementation. You'll work closely with your team to deliver high-quality, scalable code and build out APIs, integrations, and reusable components. Your responsibilities will include optimizing performance, ensuring security and observability, and designing robust data storage solutions. You'll also participate in code reviews, write automated tests, and take ownership of key projects and system components.

• High level of independence and trust, you decide how the implementation is done

• Collaborate effectively in a team and delivering high-quality code in a timely manner

• Building and improving our RESTful and RPC-based APIs to be consumed by various applications (and end-users)

• Building reusable code and libraries for future use

• Optimizing the application for maximum performance and scalability

• Implementing security, observability and data protection functionalities

• Designing and implementing data storage solutions

• Building out integrations with help desk and analytics platforms

• Performing code reviews and providing feedback to your peers

• Taking ownership of the team's projects and the components of the system for which the team is responsible.

• Writing automated tests

• At least 5 years of experience with a focus on back-end development

• Experience with programming languages like Go, Python, or Java

• Strong understanding of relational databases, schema design and query optimization

• Working experience with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and Docker

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services

• Comfortable with working remotely in English across departments

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills

Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.

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Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.

Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

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