We are a team of doers, seasoned engineers, hackers and builders, working on the future of streaming data.Funded by premier investors including GV and Lightspeed, Redpanda is building the streaming data platform for developers. We're evolving streaming beyond the Apache Kafka® protocol into a unified "engine of record" that delivers a categorical reduction in complexity, wicked-fast performance, onboard Wasm transforms, and transparent tiered storage that gives consumers access to both real-time and historical data from a single API.
About the Role:As a Technical Support Engineer at Redpanda, you will help our organization embody our commitment to delivering exceptional customer-centric technical support. Reporting directly to the Director, Technical Support, you will be a vital contributor to our growing support team in the Customer Success organization. In this role, you will play a fundamental part in ensuring our customers' success, fostering their confidence in our solutions, and elevating their overall experience.
Your primary focus will be to leverage your technical expertise to provide world-class support for Redpanda's range of products and services. Your ability to understand and address our customers' needs and technical challenges will be at the heart of our customer-centric approach.
You Will: - Be the primary face of our organization to our customers to ensure we meet and/or exceed customer expectations on the Redpanda operation. These may be customer focused areas related to configuration, hardware, documentation, product, or requests for features
- Work with engineering to drive and solve customer challenges from creation through resolution
- Partner with product engineering groups on periodic root cause analysis on customer issues, and distill lessons learned for the rest of the organization
- Build tools & services to create and improve support infrastructure, from issue life cycles to trending on root causes
- Participate in on-call rotations to follow the sun in support of our customers
- Ensure customer satisfaction through strong relationships with our Customer Success team
You Have:- 3+ years of experience in L3 support of enterprise products, with a significant focus on distributed systems
- Strong understanding of Linux troubleshooting commands and regular expressions (grep/awk/sed)
- Experience with deploying and troubleshooting applications in Kubernetes
- Strong experience with public cloud providers and containerization
- Proficiency in bash scripting and/or Python
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation
- Excellent written communication skills
- Comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team and remote first company
Please highlight if applicable to you: - Proficiency with Go
- Experience supporting a SaaS platform
- Experience supporting a streaming platform
U.S. base salary range for this role is $118,000 - $139,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $103,000 - $121,000 (other US locations). Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary. Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Redpanda is used by Fortune 1000 enterprises pushing hundreds of terabytes a day, as well as by the solo dev prototyping a React application on her laptop. Think of it as a streaming data API platform that scales with you from the smallest projects to petabytes of data distributed across the globe.
Join Redpanda if you'd enjoy being part of a fast-moving, 100% remote organization with team members around the globe and a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness.
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