Support Engineer, CircleCI

• Must be willing to work Central, Mountain or Pacific time schedule, Monday-Friday
• 2+ years of technical product support or engineering or equivalent experience
• Experience with build, test, and deployment automation, either as a practitioner or in a customer-facing role
• Experience working directly with end-users 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

• 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 org, 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 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
• You’re going to be dealing with very technical users and complex issues, but you’re also tasked with creating excitement and loyalty in the customers you interact with
• 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!
• Work closely with your team and our customers to help them resolve tickets on the product
• Be creative and resourceful 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

• Whether it’s a peaceful home or a house full of kids, roommates, or pets, your office can be where you need it. CircleCI has been a remote-first company since the beginning. We’ll ensure you stay well-connected with your teammates every day through tools like Zoom, Slack, Confluence, Google Suite, and GitHub. We also provide a home office stipend to help you do your best work
• Regardless of location, we prioritize the health and wellness of our employees and their families. In addition to unlimited PTO, we offer generous parental leave and benefits that can cover employees and dependents up to 100%. We also offer quarterly wellness days, a free Calm subscription, wellness reimbursement, and Cleo for new parents
• At CircleCI, employees have ample opportunity to learn new skills, including project-based learning and presentations from our colleagues. Udemy is available for on-demand learning and we offer an annual stipend for personal development outside of CircleCI. Your continued professional development is important to us because it’s important to you
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Work from home opportunities

Total funding: $315m

Engineering has seen the rise of agile, containerisation and DevOps over the last few years. As a result, the idea of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has grown to be an important part of the engineering space. CircleCI is one company that taps into this field, offering a lightweight and open service.