About the role

The Technical Support Engineer (TSE) is a critical role in our Customer Success Organization. The TSE will be responsible for remotely engaging with active and prospective customers to rapidly analyze, reproduce and resolve their technical problems. You’ll be the first line of defense against technical support issues that arrive via email, slack and support cases. In this role you will investigate and resolve customer problems for the Semgrep product line, including Semgrep SAST and Supply Chain solutions. Our customer-facing role will expose you to a diverse group of teams within Semgrep - including but not limited to Engineering, Product Management, and Sales - providing opportunities for career growth in a lively and fast-paced environment.

Location expectations:

• This role can be fully remote, ideally located on the West coast

Prior experience in a fast-paced, tech environment is helpful, but we are more interested in your problem solving skills than your pedigree. So if this opportunity excites you but you don’t meet the exact requirements, apply anyway!

What you’ll do

• Lead and improve Support operations to help Semgrep grow as a business - these include systems, process, and training improvements
• Understand, reproduce and resolve complicated technical issues that our customers have raised.
• Own each customer case from initial creation to resolution
• Manage support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow-ups are done in a timely manner.
• Be the voice of the customer and helping prioritize recurring feature requests from our customers with our product and engineering teams.
• Contribute to building up a best-in-class technical support function, including contributing to our documentation and writing knowledge base articles, writing blogs, or designing integrations between tools.
• Participate in on-call duties.

You are ideal for this role if you have

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A deep understanding of developer workflows and build systems, including CI / CD environments such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Circle CI, Jenkins, and Buildkite and SCM environments such as Git, SVN, Perforce etc.
• Familiarity with Web Application Security concepts including OWASP Top 10.
• Basic understanding of API and Webhooks.
• A genuine interest and passion for helping solve problems, with a high degree of empathy for the customer experience.
• 2 years of experience working in customer support - Technical support experience is a plus.
• Ability to work during PST hours of 8am - 5pm Monday through Friday, and weekend/holiday on-call rotation.

Compensation

Salary Range: 

Our compensation package includes equity and benefits in addition to salary.

Please note that the range listed is for someone based in the San Francisco Bay Area.