Enterprise Support Engineer

Remote; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

BlueCat is seeking an Enterprise Support Engineer to join our Customer Care team. You will work directly with strategic enterprise customers to anticipate, identify, and address technical concerns, applying in-depth troubleshooting and networking knowledge to resolve issues.

You will partner with clients to optimize BlueCat products, perform health checks, and serve as a trusted advisor, ensuring effective communication across internal teams and customer stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of enterprise networking support and customer-facing roles.
• Strong knowledge of routing, switching, DNS, DHCP, and network services.
• Experience translating complex technical issues for non-technical customers.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with enterprise clients to optimize BlueCat products and services.
• Perform Health Checks to ensure system performance and reliability.
• Act as trusted advisor, communicating recommendations to customer contacts.
• Develop hands-on skills across BlueCat technology portfolios.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues using system, database, and application knowledge.
• Set up test environments mirroring customers' production setups.
• Open tickets with Engineering and document steps to reproduce issues.
• Escalate customer needs to Sales, Professional Services, Engineering, and Product teams.
• Provide after-hours support on a rotating schedule for continuous service.

Skills

Networking protocols

Troubleshooting

DNS & DHCP

Customer service

Communication with stakeholders

Packet capture & analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

Linux

SNMP

Wireshark

FTP/TFTP

Job description

We're BlueCat—a Great Place to Work for good reason. Our team solves critical network challenges for some of the world's largest organizations. In simple terms, we manage the systems that keep networks running smoothly, securely, and reliably—the backbone infrastructure that powers digital transformation for enterprises globally. Our Intelligent Network Operations platform delivers and enables AI-driven agentic ops at scale, automating and simplifying how companies manage, secure, and optimize their networks.

But what makes us different is how we work: we believe great work happens in an environment where you're trusted, heard, and supported. With teams globally, we're building a workplace culture that values collaboration and integrity as much as innovation. If you're looking to advance your career with a company that invests in its people, this is it.

We are growing our Customer Care team and we're looking for an Enterprise Support Engineer to join our dynamic and customer-focused department.

Here is what you need to know about our Customer Care team: We are a technologically savvy and proactive team dedicated to outstanding customer experience. We love problem solving and we take pride in being the face of BlueCat for our customers. We enjoy and thrive off of receiving feedback and having the opportunity to voice the needs of our customers to the overall organization. Think of us as BlueCat’s front line warriors!

As an Enterprise Support Engineer (ESE), you will work directly with dedicated strategic enterprise customers to anticipate, identify and address their technical concerns.

Every day will bring new and exciting challenges. You will:

• Partner with dedicated clients and help them optimize the use of BlueCat products and services by understanding the customer’s request thoroughly combined with in-depth technical knowledge

• Perform quarterly Health Checks to ensure system performance.

• Become the ‘trusted advisor’ with dedicated customers, ensuring that recommendations are heard by the appropriate customer contacts and taken seriously

• Continually develop skills to manage BlueCat’s technology portfolio.

• Apply in-depth troubleshooting and debugging skills along with your knowledge of systems, databases, and applications to get to root cause of the customer’s issue.

• Set up test environments to mirror the customer’s production set-up and perform tests using customer’s data or representative data

• Apply testing methodology and debugging skills to narrow down the problem as needed

• Open support tickets with Engineering and provide steps to reproduce to solve customer issues

• Partner with customers to determine their needs and recommend appropriate solutions

• Ensuring customer issues are escalated to the appropriate teams are engaged (e.g. Sales, Professional Services, Engineering, Product Management, etc.)

• Provide after-hours support on a rotating schedule to ensure consistent support to customers when they need it

• Validate and test upgrades in our lab, develop procedures, and assist customers during maintenance windows

What will you bring to the team?

• You have an insatiable thirst for knowledge and improvement and the desire to grow in your role and with the company

• You are proactive; a tenacious self-starter to the core

• You are technically savvy with a deep knowledge of networking protocols and experience in debugging network issues (packet capture and analysis, etc.)

• You have strong experience with common protocols and services (FTP, TFTP, NTP, SNMP, syslog, etc.) and a thorough understanding of DNS, DHCP & Linux with 5+ years’ experience

• You are an excellent communicator - you have a way with words & can connect easily with others. You possess a strong ability to explain highly technical issues to non-technical audiences

• You have a passion for constant improvement - always looking to do things better (both personally, as part of a team and for the company)

• You are capable of prioritizing and allocating resources to / focus efficiently on multiple projects

• You have experience managing customers in an enterprise environment and can demonstrate excellence in customer service

• Providing detailed updates in customer cases that show progress to closure

• The ability to maintain composure during high severity issues with a focus on getting to resolution