Staff Software Engineer (Ruby)

Zendesk is seeking a well-rounded Staff Engineer to join their Ruby infrastructure team. The team's mission is to ensure that Ruby and Rails continue to meet the needs of Zendesk's customers and engineers. The role involves maintaining and modernizing legacy systems, contributing to open source projects, and mentoring junior team members.

Requirements

• 6+ years developing server-side applications in Ruby, or similar backend programming languages.
• Demonstrated ability to build and operate distributed systems at scale.
• Expertise in relational data stores (MySQL, Postgres).
• Experience with provisioning and deploying services with a cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Sound understanding of architecture and software design patterns for server-side and web domains.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Open, thoughtful, and empathetic approach to your work.
• A desire to continually learn and share technical skills.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Opportunity to work on exciting projects
• Chance to contribute to open source projects
• Opportunity to learn and grow
• Hybrid work arrangement