Senior Associate

Senior Data Engineer

Job Description

 

Zendesk is a service-first CRM company that builds powerful, customizable software crafted to improve customer relations. At Zendesk, we encourage growth, innovation and believe in giving back to the communities we call home.

 

Our Enterprise Data & Analytics (EDA) is looking for a dedicated and experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our growing curation & engineering team. You’ll work in a collaborative Agile environment using the latest in engineering standard methodologies with involvement in all aspects of the software development lifecycle. You will be responsible for designing & developing curated data products, applying standard architectural practices supporting Data Product Managers in evolving our core data products. You will primarily develop on Google Cloud Platform and other technologies such as BigQuery, Airflow, Python, SQL, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes

What you bring to the role:

5+ for senior years of data engineering experience building, working & maintaining data pipelines on big data environments

Familiarity with processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management

Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases

Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and find opportunities for improvement

Advanced command of Python

Ability to quickly master new technologies

BA/BS degree in Engineering, CS, or equivalent

 

What you get to do every single day:

Create and maintain data pipelines and data products in the Enterprise Data Warehouse

Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery

Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and cloud native technologies

Build analytics solutions that provide useful insights into customer, finance, operations, and other key business domains

Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems

Use a wide variety of technologies, learn new things, wear lots of hats (actual hats optional)

Participate in diverse projects and collaborate with engineering, product, analytics teams

Have fun and enjoy your time @ Zendesk

 

What the stack looks like:

Our platform runs on GCP and AWS, fully orchestrated by Kubernetes

We use Terraform and helm to deploy and manage platform components

Our data pipeline is built on Kafka, GCS, BigQuery, SQL and Airflow

The underlying code written in Python and Go