Technical Support Engineer

Redpanda Data; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data streaming company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Technical Support Engineer who will be responsible for delivering exceptional customer-centric support. The ideal candidate has over 3 years of experience in L3 support, strong expertise in Linux and Kubernetes, and a willingness to participate in on-call rotations. Join a 100% remote organization that values trust and transparency.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary face of our organization to our customers.
• Work with engineering to solve customer challenges.
• Partner with product engineering on root cause analysis.
• Build tools & services for support infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call rotations for customer support.

Skills

L3 support of enterprise products

Linux troubleshooting

Kubernetes troubleshooting

Public cloud experience

Bash scripting

Python scripting

Job description

Overview

We are a team of doers, seasoned engineers, hackers and builders, working on the future of streaming data.

Redpanda is building the streaming data platform for developers, funded by premier investors including GV and Lightspeed. 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
• 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

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.

About Redpanda

Redpanda is a 100% remote organization committed to building a fast-moving team with a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness.

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