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Staff DevOps Engineer - Edge

Zendesk

Hartford, CT
1 day ago
$120k - $160k

Job Description

Join Zendesk as a Staff DevOps Engineer - Edge, where you'll build and manage high-performance systems that handle billions of requests daily, ensuring reliability and efficiency for customer-facing products.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and manage a high-performance proxy tier servicing billions of requests per day
  • Manage the global CDN platform for efficient asset delivery
  • Collaborate with a team of experienced engineers
  • Ship code to production to improve user experience
  • Review peers' code and deployment plans
  • Implement DevOps best practices

Required Qualifications

  • Proven experience with Go or Python
  • 5+ years work experience in a DevOps or production engineer role
  • 5+ years experience with edge-related technologies
  • Hands-on experience in shipping highly scalable server-side solutions
  • Hands-on experience working with Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes
  • Hands-on experience with AWS or similar cloud computing platforms

Preferred Qualifications

  • Deep experience in modern SaaS companies
  • A passion for identifying problems and fixing them
  • Strong writing skills
  • Knowledge of caching solutions and experience with CDN solutions
  • Experience observing systems via metrics and traces using cloud-based Observability tools
  • Experience, or willingness to learn, writing code in Go

Benefits & Perks

Hybrid work flexibilityHealth insurance401kBonus eligibility