Senior Software Engineer (Engineering Productivity)

Why join the Engineering Productivity team at Zendesk?

We are leading innovation at Zendesk by building tools and processes to make 1,500+ developers happy, productive, and powering 500+ Zendesk services. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Poland to join our team and play a key role in enhancing these tools, with a special focus on integrating cutting-edge AI solutions to boost engineering productivity.

In this role, you'll work alongside a group of highly skilled engineers with high autonomy to build and improve tools that our engineers rely on daily. You’ll have the opportunity to introduce and refine AI-powered features aimed at making our engineers more efficient, impactful and happy.

Do you want to be a visionary in making things function better, faster, and more reliably? Are you a smart collaborator with exceptional skills to deliver high-quality solutions? Then join us and work for a fun company where your contributions in advancing our engineering productivity—and pioneering the use of AI tools—are truly valued. This is an excellent opportunity to have a large impact on an entire engineering organization.

What you get to do every day:

• Build and support AI tools to simplify development and build processes
• Collaborate with users to improve the tool based on their feedback
• Lead feature development along with other engineers in the team
• Mentor engineers in the team through pairing and code reviews
• Share knowledge and learnings across the organization

What you bring to the role:

Required:

• You love problem-solving, investigating issues and discovering the appropriate solution
• General understanding of LLMs and AI applications architecture
• Understanding of Kubernetes, or orchestrating Docker containers.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and interpersonal skills.
• Expertise in at least one of the programming languages (JavaScript, Go, Python, Java etc.)
• Tactics and strategies for engineering productivity internal products to highly technical users in a large multi-product SaaS organization.
• Ability to collaborate with remote teams.

Nice to have:

• Experience with infrastructure management tools (e.g. Terraform, Spinnaker).
• Experience working with large language models (e.g. ChatGPT).
• Familiarity with Data Collection, Analysis, and Visualization (e.g. DBT, Snowflake).

About Zendesk

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.  

Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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