Golang Job: Staff Software Engineer

Zendesk's first and still most heavily used product is Zendesk Support. There are many channels offered when using Zendesk Support, and Email is by far the largest channel our customers use when interacting with our Support product. We process over 1 billion emails per month and have continuous growth! Our larger Email Engineering organization is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer on our Infrastructure team.

Our team builds and maintains our edge Mail Transfer Agent and related services alongside our two sibling Email Engineering teams to ensure we are aligned on business goals. You will join us at an exciting time where we are in the early stages of crafting and building our new Email Platform. You will be helping influence good architectural decisions, balanced by the reality of our business strategy by being a conduit between Product and your team.

In this role, you will help shape the future vision of the team, be responsible for keeping our current systems operational and accurate by proactively monitoring our dashboards for concerns around capacity or abuse. You will also contribute by writing and reviewing PRs on our codebase, firefighting, and prioritizing customer raised tickets before they become larger problems.

• Maintain the reliability and stability of our AWS-based Email infrastructure.

• Be a technical leader for the team to guide and deliver on our vision to turn our Email offering into a platform used by customers and all Zendesk products.

• Support and collaborate with 2 sibling Email Engineering product teams across multiple US time zones to ensure our current product development tracks are enabled for continued growth and ready for mass customer adoption.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.

• 2+ years of experience in a DevOps role in a large scale environment, preferably in SaaS.

• 2+ years of experience administering cloud systems, especially AWS

• Expertise with observability tooling, preferably DataDog.

• Expertise in Golang or Ruby on Rails.

• Familiarity with SMTP protocol and standards: SPF/DKIM/DMARC.

• Strong familiarity with Kubernetes/Docker, and network protocols.

• We write code mostly in Ruby, Golang, and BASH

• We run our services with a mix of Kubernetes and EC2 all running in AWS.

• Our services use Elasticache/Redis, MySQL (Aurora), SQS, Lambda, Kafka, and other AWS services.

Zendesk builds software for better customer relationships. It empowers organizations to improve customer engagement and better understand their customers. Zendesk products are easy to use and implement. They give organizations the flexibility to move quickly, focus on innovation, and scale with their growth.

More than 100,000 paid customer accounts in over 150 countries and territories use Zendesk products. Based in San Francisco, Zendesk has operations in the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America.

Interested in knowing what we do in the community? Check out the Zendesk Neighbor Foundation to learn more about how we engage with, and provide support to, our local communities.

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