Description:
We are looking to bring in a Staff Software Engineer to help us build, improve and scale our internal runtime platform based on cutting edge technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and Hashicorp’s Consul and Vault. Additionally, you’ll be helping us build myriad monitoring, management and alerting systems, dashboards, tracking systems and other tools. Our goals include improving Zendesk reliability, automating the operations side of software, and providing a self-service runtime platform for Zendesk product engineering to leverage.
What You Get To Do Every Day
- Work with talented, senior level software engineers.
- Design and build the core runtime platform for Zendesk microservices based on Kubernetes and a host of other open source tech
- Enhance the platform with advanced self healing and configuration management capabilities.
- Contribute back to open source projects.
- Assist other engineers running their workloads on our Kubernetes based platform.
- Work with our compliance and security teams to ensure the systems we build are highly reliable, secure, and SOC-II Compliant.
- Participate in a tightly knit, cohesive and self-organizing Scrum team.
What You Bring To The Role
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Demonstrated professional experience building robust, fault tolerant systems with some form of graceful degradation and or auto-healing involved. .
- Working knowledge of GoLang and/or Ruby programming language(s)
- Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong ownership of your work, with demonstrated experience driving large (multi-quarter and/or multi-team) projects from inception through to completion.
- Champion of best practices, high quality code, and proper test coverage. We ship code frequently and fast, but stability and reliability must never be compromised!