Support Engineer, CircleCI

• For this job you will need to have a strong technical capability along with a strong self-starting, dedicated mentality and the ability to maintain empathy for customers
• 2+ years of technical product support or engineering
• Experience working directly with customers to debug common errors
• Ability to tie business problems to technical solutions and understand
• Technology value propositions
• Demonstrated capacity to quickly absorb new concepts and technologies
• A decent amount of time using and scripting *nix
• Familiarity with Git in general and ideally GitHub in particular
• You believe that the best way for all to succeed is to honestly discuss product
• And company abilities and limitations with customers. We don't oversell at
• CircleCI
• Strong ops/infrastructure knowledge, especially networking and security
• Great relationship building skills and a good people person
• Outstanding written and oral interpersonal skills

Desirable

• CircleCI’s Customer Engineering and Success organization’s goal is to make life easier for our customers and leave them with the “wow” experience of building and testing their applications with ease
• Customer Engineering works with customers to understand their technical and business needs and requirements — from onboarding to implementation to scale
• We are comprised of Technical Success Managers, Success Engineering (post-sales for large accounts), and Support Engineering (post-sales ticket based support for Enterprise customers). There is an opportunity for both horizontal and vertical growth, and promotion within Customer Engineering and the CircleCI organization!
• As a Support Engineer, you will provide first-class post-sales technical leadership to our client base. Working directly with customers, Support Engineers are the authority on the CircleCI platform, continuous integration, and deployment practices
• Finally, as part of the Customer Engineering organization, you will have the opportunity to work directly with our Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, and Marketing teams to share knowledge and experiences, and will act as the Voice of the Customer to help drive improvements that will ensure our customers’ success with CircleCI.
• You will be the main point of contact for technical questions and requests for assistance that our customers register in our support ticketing system. You will work with the rest of the Support team to build out and cultivate our support operations, and help to establish a customer community to improve the experience of our customers. For this
• Work closely with our customers to help them resolve tickets
• Be creative and scrappy in solving customer technical problems and answering customer questions
• Build standard methodologies for technical troubleshooting across different technologies, and author Knowledge Articles that contribute to our self-serve support portal
• Be the customer's voice and use customer feedback to help Product and Engineering improve the product
• Become a champion of the CircleCI solution
• Participate in on-call rotation