# Senior Software Engineer, Connectors & Discover

Job Description Join us at Zendesk, where we're on a mission to power exceptional service for every person on the planet. We're accelerating that ambition by building products rooted in AI, automation, and intelligent customer experiences, because behind every interaction lies an opportunity to make a human connection. We’re seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own the data layer that powers Zendesk’s AI products. In this role, you’ll build and scale integrations and analytics infrastructure that transform raw support data into trusted automation recommendations - directly enabling customers to reduce support costs and improve customer outcomes. What you’ll be doing Design, build, and maintain robust platform connectors (ETL: Client → Extractor → Transformer → Loader) across third-party systems, handling auth, pagination, rate limits, and schema drift. Extend and scale the Discover insights engine: clustering topics, detecting knowledge gaps, calculating deflection/opportunity impact, and surfacing automation recommendations. Build and operate resilient data pipelines: real-time webhooks, incremental sync, reindexing, and metrics aggregation with worker queues. Design, optimize,

- **Id**: 3836353
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zendesk-senior-software-engineer-connectors-discover>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Austin, United States, Madison, United States, San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T21:10:36Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T16:49:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5394
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: 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**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 145000
- **Max**: 217000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 217000

## Technologies

- **Celery** — Optional: no
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Hybrid Search** — Optional: no
- **OpenSearch** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Transformers** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: yes
- **Dagster** — Optional: yes
- **Embeddings** — Optional: yes
- **NLP** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T21:10:36Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 50 · green card filings: 21; Filings 12m: 50

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:10, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 217000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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