Technical Escalations Specialist (BOG)

Horatio; Bogotá; On-site; COP 42,000,000 - 65,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Horatio is seeking a Technical Escalations Specialist to bridge Customer Support, Product, and Engineering in Bogotá. The role focuses on triaging complex issues, reproducing bugs, and delivering developer-ready reports to accelerate resolutions.

This on-site position requires strong English skills, 2+ years in technical support or product operations, and proficiency with Jira/Linear/GitHub Issues and Zendesk/Freshdesk/Salesforce Service Cloud.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in Technical Support, Tier 2 Support, or Product Operations.
• Proficiency with issue-tracking tools (Jira, Linear, GitHub Issues) and support ticketing systems (Zendesk, Freshdesk, Salesforce Service Cloud).
• Hands-on experience inspecting browser developer tools and reading server/application logs; working with APIs (Postman, cURL).
• Excellent communication and ability to translate complex tech to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Triage incoming escalations and classify them (defects, product questions, feature requests).
• Assess business impact and urgency to set priorities.
• Reproduce issues across environments and collect diagnostics for Engineering.
• Draft clear bug reports with reproduction steps and environment details; route to engineering.
• Advocate for customer during triage to ensure critical issues get priority.
• Provide status updates to Support, Success, and Account Management.
• Verify fixes in staging/production before closing tickets.

Skills

Advanced English proficiency

2+ years in Technical Support

Issue tracking tools

Support ticketing systems

Browser dev tools

Logs and diagnostics

APIs (Postman, cURL)

Technical communication

Problem-solving

Runbooks/docs

Tools

Jira

Linear

GitHub Issues

Zendesk

Freshdesk

Salesforce Service Cloud

Postman

cURL

Job description

Position Summary

We are looking for a detail-oriented, technically skilled, and customer-obsessed Technical Escalations Specialist to bridge the gap between Customer Support, Product, and Engineering. In this role, you will act as the primary gatekeeper and advocate for customer-reported issues. You will be responsible for triaging complex technical challenges, replicating bugs, writing comprehensive developer-ready issue reports, and driving critical customer-impacting defects toward rapid resolution.

This is an on-site role in Bogotá.

Key Responsibilities

Intake, Triage & Prioritization

• Review incoming escalations and classify them accurately as defects/bugs, product questions, or feature requests
• Assess business impact and customer urgency to assign appropriate priority levels
• Filter out duplicate issues, known workarounds, and user errors before escalating to engineering

Reproduction & Technical Validation

• Independently reproduce reported issues across relevant operating environments and configurations
• Gather crucial diagnostics, logs, network traces, console errors, and session recordings required by Engineering
• Validate core functionality and distinguish genuine defects from intended system behavior

Engineering Escalation & Advocacy

• Draft clear, actionable, and structured bug reports (e.g., in Jira) containing exact reproduction steps, expected vs. actual behavior, and environment details
• Route issues directly to the appropriate engineering teams according to internal SLAs
• Serve as the customer advocate during bug triages to ensure critical, revenue-impacting issues receive appropriate engineering priority

Product Expertise & Cross-Functional Communication

• Serve as an internal subject matter expert, resolving complex product inquiries or routing them to specialized team members
• Categorize and tag incoming user feedback and feature requests to surface trends and insights for the Product Management team
• Close the feedback loop by keeping customer-facing teams informed when requested features or enhancements are delivered
• Provide regular status updates to Support, Customer Success, and Account Management regarding open bugs, hotfixes, and patch releases
• Verify and validate fixes in staging and production environments prior to closing tickets and confirming resolution with customer-facing teams

Process Ownership, Metrics & Prevention

• Own and refine the end-to-end escalation lifecycle, handoff criteria, and SLA tracking between Support and Engineering
• Track and report on key operational metrics (e.g., Time to Escalate, Escalation-to-Bug Ratio, Engineering SLA Adherence)
• Identify recurring problem areas and systemic bugs to advocate for long-term root-cause remediation
• Conduct regular training and enablement sessions for Tier 1/2 Support agents to continuously improve initial escalation quality

Required Skills / Abilities

• Advanced English proficiency, both verbal and written
• 2+ years in Technical Support, Tier 2 Support, or Product Operations
• Proficiency with issue-tracking tools (Jira, Linear, GitHub Issues) and support ticketing systems (Zendesk, Freshdesk, Salesforce Service Cloud)
• Hands-on experience inspecting browser developer tools (Network/Console tabs), reading server/application logs, and working with APIs (Postman, cURL)
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into plain language for non-technical stakeholders
• Strong problem-solving instincts with a methodical approach to isolating variables during defect reproduction
• Experience authoring internal documentation, knowledge base articles, or runbooks (preferred)