Staff Senior Golang Engineer
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12 hours ago
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Job Summary
Job Description
Zendesk is a service-first CRM company that builds powerful customizable software designed to improve customer relationships. We encourage growth innovation and believe in giving back to the communities we call home. With us youll help build and maintain backend systems that support customers worldwide.
Were looking for a Staff/Senior Backend Software Engineer (Golang) to join our engineering this role youll build reliable services collaborate with cross-functional partners and contribute across the full software development lifecycle. Youll work with Go and modern backend practices including automated testing containerization cloud infrastructure and data stores. Experience with event-driven systems is a plus.
What youll be doing
Design build test and maintain backend services using Golang.
Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical designs and working software.
Contribute to the full SDLC: discovery design implementation testing deployment monitoring and support.
Write clean maintainable code with strong automated test coverage (e.g. Go test).
Improve reliability scalability performance and observability through pragmatic engineering and operational practices.
Work with data stores and messaging systems such as PostgreSQL Redis and Kafka (or equivalents).
Participate in code reviews design discussions and documentation to strengthen shared patterns and engineering standards.
Help reduce technical debt through refactoring and continuous improvement.
What you bring to the team
Experience building backend systems with Golang (or strong proficiency in another backend language and willingness to ramp up in Go).
Comfort with automated testing and debugging in production-oriented systems.
Familiarity with containerization and delivery workflows (e.g. Docker CI/CD).
Exposure to cloud platforms (e.g. AWS) and operating services in distributed environments.
Understanding of API design and backend architecture (RESTful and/or event-driven patterns).
Experience with relational and/or key-value data stores (e.g. PostgreSQL Redis) and messaging/queueing systems (e.g. Kafka SQS or equivalents).
Clear communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
Nice to have
ClickHouse
Kafka stream processing libraries (e.g. Sarama Goka) or similar tooling
Temporal and/or Cassandra
Experience with event-driven architectures at scale
What you can expect
The chance to grow by tackling challenging problems and building impactful systems.
Collaboration with a supportive team that values quality and learning.
Flexibility to adjust your workday to your needs and circumstances.
Competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.
If youre excited about building dependable backend systems in Go and want to work in a collaborative customer-focused environment wed love to hear from you.
Hybrid: In this role our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection collaboration learning and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.
The intelligent heart of customer experience
Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.
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