Zendesk

Zendesk

Zendesk provides a comprehensive software solution designed to enhance customer service and engagement through an AI-powered platform that facilitates communication across various channels, including text, mobile, phone, email, live chat, and social me...

Professional Services
5K-10K
Founded 2007

Description

  • Design, build, and deploy large-scale distributed systems and high-throughput data pipelines using Go and cloud-native technologies.
  • Lead system-wide architectural decisions with a focus on data flow, performance, and resilience.
  • Contribute high-quality code to critical parts of the codebase and performance-sensitive workloads.
  • Lead major technical initiatives and help reduce technical debt.
  • Ensure the platform meets reliability and scalability SLAs.
  • Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, testing, and maintainability.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and R&D management to define the technical roadmap.
  • Review architecture and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of backend engineering experience.
  • 3+ years architecting high-load systems or data pipelines in a production environment.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems using modern languages such as Go, Java, Rust, or Python.
  • Strong hands-on experience with relational and analytical databases, especially Postgres; ClickHouse preferred.
  • Proven experience with microservices, containers, and modern DevOps practices, including Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI/CD.
  • Demonstrated ability to combine hands-on coding with architectural leadership.
  • Strong debugging, benchmarking, and performance optimization skills.
  • Deep Golang expertise is a plus.
  • Deep Kubernetes knowledge is a plus.
  • Experience with modern data engineering technologies such as Spark, Trino, Iceberg, Parquet, ClickHouse, and DBT is a plus.
  • DBA background in relational, OLAP, or columnar systems is a plus.
  • Experience with telemetry and time series is a plus.
  • Cloud expertise with AWS, GCP, or Azure is a plus.
  • Role is remote and available as a full-time employee in the UK, Ireland, Estonia, the Netherlands, Sweden, or Israel, with contractor options in East Europe and Portugal.

Benefits

  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Flexible working options and a remote-friendly schedule.
  • Health insurance.
  • Parental leave.
  • Employee stock option plan.
  • Home office allowance.
  • Professional development stipend.
  • Peer recognition program.

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