# Senior Software Engineer - AI Copilot (Backend)

Job Description Job Summary At Zendesk, our focus is helping our customers build great relationships with their customers. Founded by three Danish entrepreneurs, Zendesk has experienced remarkable success and growth while maintaining a fun, positive, and down-to-earth culture. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our AI Copilot organisation. AI Copilot is a multi-million ARR product that puts AI directly into the hands of customer service agents and administrators. You will be a key contributor delivering AI-powered product features at Zendesk scale, taking ownership of significant pieces of work from design through to production. We ship to learn: our philosophy is to deliver early, deliver often, and iterate based on real-world customer feedback. What you'll be doing Own and deliver end-to-end product features - from technical design through implementation, testing, release, and iteration. Work closely with ML Scientists and ML Engineers to integrate ML-powered capabilities into the product as reliable, user-facing features. Contribute to technical design discussions and architecture decisions within your team, with growing influence across teams. Build and maint

- **Id**: 3996553
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zendesk-senior-software-engineer-ai-copilot-backend>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Lisbon, Portugal, Portugal
- **Countries**: PT
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T07:38:18Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5147
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, CRM Software, Customer Support & Help Desk Software

## Company

- **Id**: 369
- **Name**: Zendesk
- **Domain**: zendesk.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zendesk>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 29
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.586
- **Repost share**: 0.069
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 32
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Ruby** — Optional: no
- **A/B Testing** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: yes
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **dbt** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **Metaflow** — Optional: yes
- **MySQL** — Optional: yes
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **Rest API** — Optional: yes
- **Snowflake** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T01:25:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:5, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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