Job Description
Zendesk is looking for a Student Developer to join our team! Your experience will be learning what it means to be a Software Engineer.
As an intern with Zendesk, you will collaborate closely with team members all over the globe to build scalable, high performance products and services. You will pair with engineers to learn about our current technology stack and architecture. You’ll write code, design documents, tests, instrument changes using metrics and distributed tracing, and deploy to production!
The ideal candidate will be fascinated by solving large scaled challenges using new technologies and work by remaining flexible, agile and adaptable. It’s preferred that you can speak several languages or have an interest in foreign culture.
At Zendesk, diversity, equity and inclusion are more than buzzwords, and bigger than the bottom line. It's about our people knowing that they're valued where they work. Employees at Zendesk work hard to build a culture where everyone belongs. Employee Communities play a vital role in bringing us together and ensure we feel supported at work.
By the end of your program, you will have learned and built skills that will make you a successful Software Developer:
- Address sophisticated problems and provide simple elegant solutions
- Contribute to making our software simple, reliable, and easy to operate
- Collaborate with teammates around the globe
- Work in an agile development environment where pragmatism triumphs over dogmatism
- Participate in activities with other interns
- Experience a team with people from around the world and many different nationalities
Our hybrid way of working is a core part of this experience, to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration. As such, this role must attend our office on a weekly basis for at least 2 days a week.
Requirements:
- Actively enrolled in a degree in Computer Science or related field program and graduating by 2027
- Coding skills in at least one programming language, and a desire to pick up more. These languages include but are not limited to: Javascript (React), Ruby (Rails), Java, GoLang etc
- Must be authorized to work in the locations you have applied to work in
The intelligent heart of customer experience
Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.
Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.
As part of our commitment to fairness and transparency, we inform all applicants that artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision systems may be used to screen or evaluate applications for this position, in accordance with Company guidelines and applicable law.
Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster global diversity, equity, & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees 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, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law, please click here.
Zendesk endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please send an e-mail to peopleandplaces@zendesk.com with your specific accommodation request.