Staff Software Engineer

Join Zendesk's Data Applications Engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer and contribute to designing, delivering, and operating high-performance front-end applications and backend services.

Requirements

• Strong engineering fundamentals: system design, data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and distributed systems thinking.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial ownership of production systems and experience leading large technical efforts.
• Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages - Java, Ruby on Rails, Python, Golang, NodeJS, Typescript, Scala etc— FastAPI or comparable async frameworks
• Hands-on experience with microservices architectures, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and API design (REST/gRPC/GraphQL)
• Practical experience with observability (metrics, logs, tracing), CI/CD, automated testing (unit through end-to-end), and performance profiling.

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan
• Visa Sponsorship
• Four Day Work Week
• Generous Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Relocation Assistance