Zendesk is looking for hardworking Software Engineering Interns to join our team in the US! Interns can be based remotely anywhere in the US, or co-located with one of our offices in San Francisco, CA or Madison, WI. Relocation assistance is not provided. This internship will be 40 hours per week for 10-12 weeks starting in June 2022. The Engineering team is responsible for building customer centric products that are powerful and flexible, and scale to meet the needs of any business. Your internship 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 internship will focus on building applications, enhancing your skills and give you on-the-job experience to further develop your engineering knowledge. The ideal candidate will have a genuine passion for solving large scale challenges using new technologies and will be willing to work hard by remaining flexible, agile and adaptable.

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 internship, 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

• Use a wide variety of technologies & wear lots of hats

• Work in an agile development environment where pragmatism triumphs over dogmatism

• Participate in activities and volunteering with other interns

Requirements:

• Currently enrolled in a degree program in Computer Science or related field at the time of the internship

• Coding skills in at least one programming language, and a desire to pick up more. These languages include but are not limited to: Golang, Java, Javascript, Objective-C, Python, Ruby, Scala or Swift

• Must be authorized to work in the United States

• Must be located in the United States for the full duration of the internship

About Zendesk - Champions of Customer Service
Zendesk started the customer experience revolution in 2007 by enabling any business around the world to take their customer service online. Today, Zendesk is the champion of great service everywhere for everyone, and powers billions of conversations, connecting more than 100,000 logos with hundreds of millions of customers over telephony, chat, email, messaging, social channels, communities, review sites and help centers. Zendesk products are built with love to be loved. The company was conceived in Copenhagen, Denmark, built and grown in California, taken public in New York City, and today employs more than 4,000 people across the world. Learn more at www.zendesk.com.

We believe in service. Learn more about how we provide support to our local communities with volunteering, grants and product donations.

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.

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