Zendesk is a rapidly growing company with an outstanding product and exceptional employees.

We’re looking for four Cloud Engineering Interns to join the Foundation Secure team for summer 2022.

As part of the Foundation Secure team at Zendesk, you will tackle engineering and security challenges involving the cloud products and services that Zendesk’s infrastructure is built upon. Our mission is to productize the base platform services that all Zendesk engineering teams need to be successful in the cloud. Your internship will focus on building the tools that internal engineering teams use to interact with secrets, gain access to cloud environments, and govern how those environments operate.

What you’ll be doing

• Solve complex problems and provide simple, elegant solutions

• Contribute to making our infrastructure simple, reliable, and easy to operate

• Design and secure infrastructure for AWS and Kubernetes

• Collaborate with Foundation Engineering teammates around the globe (in Copenhagen, Dublin, Melbourne, and San Francisco)

• Use a wide variety of technologies, wear lots of hats (actual hats optional)

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

What you bring to the role

• Required:

  • 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

  • Must be authorized to work in the United States

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

• Preferred:

  • Experience in Python or Golang

  • Passion for solving large scale challenges using new technologies

  • Great communication skills (written and verbal) that will enable successful collaboration with our global teams

  • Interest in working in a large public cloud (Amazon Web Services) environment

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.

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 benefits@zendesk.com with your specific accommodation request.

By submitting your application, you agree that Zendesk may collect your personal data for recruiting, global organization planning, and related purposes. Zendesk's Candidate Privacy Notice explains what personal information Zendesk may process, where Zendesk may process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Zendesk’s use of your personal information.