Description
Join Samsara’s Global Technical Support team as a Technical Support Engineer! You will provide world-class hardware and software support to customers, resolving complex issues and collaborating with other engineers. This remote position, open to candidates in the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, or Poland, requires a strong technical background and excellent communication skills. You’ll develop troubleshooting tools, build knowledge base articles, and provide product feedback.
- Resolve complex customer problems
- Improve support across all teams
- Collaborate with other support engineers
- Develop partnerships to reproduce bugs and build testbeds
- Manage tickets
- Build knowledge base articles
- Provide product feedback to Engineering and PM teams
- Develop expertise in testing, analysis, and relevant product and technical domains
- Build & develop troubleshooting tools independently or through partnership with L3 team
- Use methodologies/tools for Troubleshooting / Root Cause Analysis (RCA) & process/documentation (Databricks, GraphQL, Postman, SQL, etc.)
- Build repeatable Queries for oneself and team
- Synthesize broad and deep Customer understanding to prioritize, engage & close out effectively
- Model a sense of urgency and commitment to deliver results by constantly educating and enabling the Customer by participating in engagements (webinars, blogs, conferences, etc.)
- Suggest alternative solutions to customer problems based on knowledge of other Product Areas
- Consistently demonstrate solutions to prevent future problems
- Map data gathering to specific Customer profiles to gauge
- Solve complex and diverse problems where analysis requires in-depth evaluation of factors with imaginative and innovative troubleshooting and experimentation
- Exceed expectations when workload is high and/or consistently faced with advanced complexity
- Focus on key individual performance measures (e.g., Productivity, CSAT, QA, Backlog, etc.)
- Create positive, impactful changes to one’s Team through quality collaboration, communication & leadership
- Use technical knowledge and product expertise to troubleshoot and resolve customer issues with medium to high complexity
- Proactively assist other Support & Engineering teams beyond problem resolution
- Effectively interact with the wider Support team to solve complex problems
- Identify serviceability issues (HW/SW) and drive resolution of the issues with Engineering and other parts of the organization
- Consistently drive proactive process engagement across working groups (TSE, MGMT, PSE, HWE)
- Coach others and use advanced knowledge of issues, trends, and patterns, and the customer experience to participate in proactive engagements with PSE/Engineering teams to define author requirements, documentation and other work assignment details for use internally and externally
- Actively mentor and develop others
- Provide direct feedback to Support Management for product and process improvements to help enhance the customer experience
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices
Requirements
- B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical), or other Technical Field
- Significant relevant work experience operating at a similar level
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong bias for action, ability to dive deep, and insistence on the highest standards
- Ability to work in a hyper-growth environment with shifting priorities
- Willingness to work flexible hours during nights and weekends as required
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with industrial systems, electronics, tinkering with cars or IoT devices, or similar hands-on work
- Willingness to learn or enthusiasm for hardware based solutions
- Understanding of Jira
- Demonstrated Mastery for a whole Solution Group
This role offers opportunities for career growth and impact within a rapidly expanding company. Samsara offers a competitive compensation package and flexible working arrangements.
- Competitive total compensation package
- Employee-led remote and flexible working
- Health benefits
- Samsara for Good charity fund