Senior Staff Engineer, Agent Workspace

Zendesk is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to work on highly scalable technical challenges and based in our APAC HQ in Singapore!

Senior Staff Engineers are expected to be hands-on technologists who could contribute to application development directly, lead the design and implementation of projects, and be involved in technical discussions beyond their teams.

What You’ll Be Doing

You will be primarily working on driving the Agent Workspace forward. Agent Workspace is a large project that has large requirements for synchronization across many teams, across the stack, and across geographical time zones. In particular, You will be involved in the new GraphQL Subscription Service to deliver real time data.

What You Bring To The Role

Tech Stack

In Zendesk, you will come across code bases in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, Ruby. Additionally, you are encouraged to be proficient in quality and deployment processes. Lastly, good operational knowledge of GraphQL systems at scale would be an advantage.

Culture and Perks

We have 200+ staff in our Singapore office which is home to our highly successful chat product. We approach work with calm, focus, a sense of humour whilst keeping sane working hours. You will work with encouraging peers that truly care about our customers and deliver value for them. At Zendesk, we also have a culture where ideas come from the bottom up - we have yearly company hackathons!

Perks include stock, flexible working, $1500 training allowance, medical insurance coverage for you and your family, mobile phone allowance, home internet reimbursement, WFH equipment budget, and 4 months parental leave.

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