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Lead Support Engineer - Remote 🔥


Lead Support Engineer - Remote

California - Remote (US)

Lead Support Engineer, Vault Location: Remote United States About HashiCorp and this opportunity
This is a full-time position with a highly competitive compensation and benefits package. You will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic and ambitious team. HashiCorp is a series D startup in San Francisco that is best known for creating a suite of software tools that help enterprise companies automate their infrastructure and helps them migrate to the cloud. HashiCorp's software suite allows users to provision, secure and run any infrastructure for any application.
HashiCorp is looking for a high-caliber customer facing engineering professional to join its Support Engineering team as a Lead. This is a great opportunity to join a small team and have a direct impact on HashiCorp's fast growing business. This highly visible position will be an integral part of both the Support Engineering and Vault Open Source/Enterprise teams. You are a fit if you thrive in a fast-paced culture that values essential communication, collaboration, and results. You are a self-motivated, detailed individual with an eye for automation, process improvement, and problem solving.
Working with the Associate Director of Support Engineering, the Lead Support Engineer will be a key member of the Customer Success organization and will directly impact customer satisfaction and success. The Lead Support engineer will solve complex issues related to Vault and Vault Enterprise and independently work to find viable solutions. This individual will be responsible for managing Severity 1 issues at a critical level for Enterprise customers, both on a technical and customer service level. They will also help manage the root cause analysis and retrospective process with multi-functional partners.
They will contribute to product growth and development via weekly product and marketing meetings. The Lead Support Engineer will attend customer meetings as needed to help identify, debug and resolve the customer issue and is expected to be a liaison between the customer and HashiCorp engineering. When possible the Support Engineer will update and improve product documentation, guide feature development, and implement bug fixes based on customer feedback.RESPONSIBILITIES: I WANT TO DO THAT
  • Reproduce and debug customer issues by using or building test environments and tools. This is what you do the majority of your time in this role
  • Act as an escalation manager for mission-critical sev-1s for enterprise customers. This would consist of being secondary on-call at all times.
  • Triage and solve incoming support requests via Zendesk within SLA, including high-severity urgent cases
  • Document and record all activity and communication with customers in accordance to both internal and external security standards
  • Attend weekly product engineering meetings to discuss issues pertinent to support
  • Collaborate with engineers, sales engineers, sales representatives, and technical account managers to schedule, coordinate, and lead customer debugging calls
  • Contribute to product documentation, customer knowledge base, and standard methodologies guides
  • Continuously improve process and tools for normal, repetitive support tasksGOALS: I CAN DO THAT
30 days:
  • Holistic understanding of Vault/Vault Enterprise and the interaction with other Hashicorp Product Suite
  • Successfully perform all common work flows within Vault
  • 1 contribution to extend or improve product documentation or install guides
  • Successfully play with all the elements in Vault Guide (*********************************************** days:
  • Ability to effectively triage and respond to Level 1 & 2 inquiries independently
  • Ability to provision and bootstrap Vault Cluster with all the advanced features without assistance
  • Ride along on 1-2 live customer debugging calls
  • Author 1 customer knowledge base article from area of subject matter expertise90 days:
  • Ability to effectively triage and respond to a production down issue with minimal assistance
  • Ability to take any Vault ticket without assistance
  • Ability to independently find points of error and identify root cause by examining log files
  • Ability to create ongoing KB articles that will benefit all customersREQUIREMENTS:
  • At least 5 years of Support Engineering.
  • Experience as an escalation lead for mission critical, sev. one tickets.
  • A minimum of 8 years DevOps Engineering, Software Engineering, or System Administration experience
  • Experience with Vault is a huge plus
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills technical writing experience a plus
  • Well-organized, excellent work ethic, attention to detail, and self-starting
  • Experience troubleshooting and resolving urgent, high-visibility technical problems
  • Familiarity with Distributed Systems, Microservice architecture, and Containers
  • Interest in cloud adoption and technology at scale
  • Excellent problem solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skillsEDUCATION: I HAVE THAT
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Technical Writing, or equivalent professional experience
HashiCorp embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our company will be. #LI-RS1

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