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