Senior Software Engineer

Description:

Zendesk is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Foundation team here in Australia. The Foundation group's mission is to revolutionize the effectiveness of cloud services and infrastructure with building blocks that enable Zendesk engineers to safely and efficiently deliver reliable products at scale.

You will join the team that handles all the vital data store components that power Zendesk applications and services. Our team is crafting a beautifully simple way for other developers to just get their datastores and not sweat the details. This is essential for a company where petabytes of data are spread across hundreds of datastore. So if the idea of helping hundreds of teams quickly and easily provision secure, reliable datastores in AWS sounds exciting, come join us!

What you'll be doing:

• Communicate and collaborate with a team of engineers who care about the product and code to provide simple, sophisticated solutions to complex technical problems.

• Use sound methodologies at every stage of the development cycle including technical design, pair programming, peer code review, documenting, testing, and continuous integration.

• Build great software that is used by other developers.

• Develop infrastructure life-cycle automation using the Custom Resource Operator pattern within Kubernetes and Golang.

• Share the responsibility of maintaining the systems built by the team.

What you bring to the role:

• Eagerness to work with team members of various experience and skillsets

• Great problem-solving with the ability to think on your feet and lead discussions

• Ability to operate with uncertainty

• Excellent communication skills

• A desire to build clean, efficient, and maintainable code