Talkdesk is pioneering a new era of Customer Experience Automation (CXA), redefining how the world’s most admired brands interact with their customers through AI. Our global team of courageous innovators is customer-obsessed, building AI-first solutions that put empathy, trust, and transparency at the center of every interaction. We foster an inclusive culture where diverse perspectives drive our success and every voice belongs. Combining the stability of a global leader with the agility of a disruptor, Talkdeskers are empowered with the autonomy to drive meaningful impact, while giving back to the communities and environment around us.

Talkdesk has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) and in the G2 Overall Grid® Reports for AI Agents and Contact Center. With seven consecutive years on the Forbes Cloud 100 and multiple AI Breakthrough awards, there has never been a more exciting time to join us as we shape the future of customer experience automation!

Our mission is to improve developers’ experience by giving them the tools to manage the entire software lifecycle and to be self-sufficient.

To help with this we are building our own internal PaaS using the latest technologies like Kubernetes, Prometheus, Kotlin and others. This platform is an important pillar in Talkdesk’s engineering effort and helps us deliver better, faster and more reliable solutions for our customers.

Responsibilities:

Design, build, harden, and maintain key infrastructure parts of our platform (from the lifecycle of the infrastructure to each one of our Kubernetes clusters)
Support the processes that enable the safe upgrade and update of each component of our compute infrastructure
Work with Git Ops industry-leading tools such as Spacelift and/or Atlantis
Help automate safe deployment practices by using industry-leading tools such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, Helm Charts, etc
Help automate infrastructure provisioning and other engineering processes by working on automations built on top of an engineering platform written in GitHub Actions
Coach and up-skill other engineering team members
Solve challenging technical problems and put your skills to the test every day; see an immediate impact of your work and the value you've created for other engineers
Automate every aspect of our infrastructure to remove as much human intervention as possible
Develop effective tooling, alerts, and responses to both identify and address reliability risks
Drive and promote protocols on production readiness and operational excellence
Partner with product engineering teams to debug production outages and carry out action items to improve the reliability of those systems
Advocate for automated testing, continuous integration and delivery, feature toggles, and progressive rollouts
Plan for the growth of Talkdesk’s infrastructure.

Skills and Qualifications:

Understand large-scale complex systems from a reliability perspective
Passion for producing clean, standards-compliant, secure code
Bringing a developer mindset and applying it to infrastructure
Know your way around Linux/Unix systems

Experience with Kubernetes:

Experience with Infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and Ansible
Experience building software with a programming language such as Java, Kotlin, Scala, or any other JVM-based languages
Experience writing scripts for automating the execution of certain tasks with a programming language like Ruby, Python, Bash, or any other scripting language
Experience with at least one relational and non-relational databases (ex.: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elastic Search)
Ability to identify time-consuming and error-prone manual tasks and then build/leverage tooling to automate them
Ability to identify root causes of instability in a large-scale distributed system across stacks

Nice to haves / Pluses:

Experience with cloud-based solutions such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure
Experience with Go programming language

Additional Notes:

This position will follow a hybrid work model.

Work Environment and Physical Requirements:

Primarily office-environment work, extended periods of sitting or standing, computer-based work. Limited lifting, and equipment usage limited to computer-related equipment (keyboards, mouse, etc.)

The Talkdesk story hinges on empathy and acceptance. It is the shared goal among all Talkdeskers to empower a new kind of customer hero through our innovative software solution, and we firmly believe that the best path to success for our mission is inclusivity, diversity, and genuine acceptance. To that end, we will hire, promote, work along, cheer for, bond with, and warmly welcome into the Talkdesk family all persons without regard to ethnic and racial identity, indigenous heritage, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.