Sr. Support Engineer

Posted 3 Days Ago
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Austin, TX
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology • Security • Software
The Role
The Sr. Support Engineer will troubleshoot Vault issues, assist customers, improve processes, and contribute to product development and documentation.
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Sr. Support Engineer - Vault team

About the team:

Location: We are seeking someone in Austin, TX and able to come into the office once a week

Reporting to the Manager, Support Engineering, the Support Engineer will be a key
member of the Global Support & Services organization and advocate for customer satisfaction
and success. The Sr. Support Engineer will troubleshoot complex issues related to Vault
and Vault Enterprise and work to find viable solutions while maintaining detailed communication
with customers and responsiveness to their needs. They will contribute to product growth and
development via weekly product meetings. The Sr. Support Engineer will attend customer
meetings as needed to help identify, debug and resolve the customer issue and will serve as a
liaison between the customer and HashiCorp engineering.

This will be a part of our Vault Support Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to join a small team and have a
direct impact on HashiCorp’s fast growing business. This highly visible position will be an
integral part of both the support engineering and Vault Open Source/Enterprise teams.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

● Reproduce and debug customer issues by building or using existing test environments
and tools.
● Communicate tactfully with customers: gather info, provide diagnostic and resolution
steps, convey process and product guidance
● Solve incoming technical support requests within SLA, including high-severity urgent
cases
● Continuously increase knowledge and help train the team on 3rd party technologies that
integrate with Vault and on new Vault features
● Identify and communicate product usage trends, bugs and feature requests at weekly
product engineering meetings
● Collaborate with account managers to schedule, coordinate, and lead customer
debugging calls
● Document and record all activity with customers in accordance to both internal and
external security standards
● Contribute to product documentation, customer knowledge base, and best practices
guides
● Continuously improve process and tools in collaboration with the team
● Periodic on-call rotation for production-down issues
● Provision and bootstrap a Vault cluster without assistance.
● Understanding of Vault/Vault Enterprise and the interaction with other products within
the Hashicorp Product Suite.
● Begin preparation for the Vault Certification Exam
● Complete Vault Certification Exam

Within first 60 days:
● Ride along on 1-2 live customer debugging calls
● Effectively triage and respond to Sev 3 & Sev 4 inquiries independently.
● Contribute 1 Support Knowledge Base article
● Complete 10 Support Tickets with the guidance of more senior team members.
● Effectively triage customer support tickets and understand the difficulty of tickets being
submitted
● Begin working Sev 2 tickets towards the end of the first 

Within first 90 days:
● Respond to Sev 1/production down issues with minimal assistance.
● Independently find points of error and identify root cause by examining log files.
● Create ongoing KB articles that will benefit all customers, 1 article per month.
● Meet performance goals set by management for ticket closure per month, SLA, and
CSAT.


What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

● 5+ years of Support Engineering experience (or comparable customer-facing technical
role), preferably for mission-critical software
● DevOps Engineering, Software Engineering, and/or System Administration experience is
a plus
● Experience or knowledge with Vault; other HashiCorp tools is a plus
● Possess the following attributes: Confidence, Positivity and Adaptability.
● Experience troubleshooting and resolving urgent, high-visibility technical problems
● Experience communicating clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing
● Experience working with Enterprise customers and advocating for customer experience
● Experience with major cloud platforms, distributed systems, microservice architecture,
and containers
● Experience with scripting tool of choice to help automate reproduction environments (for
example, Bash, Python)
● Ability to read complex code for troubleshooting and familiarity with Github
● Experience with REST APIs and command line tools
● Well-organized, excellent work ethic, attention to detail, and ability to learn new
technologies quickly
● Excellent problem solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills 

What's nice to have (preferred qualifications)

● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience preferred

HashiCorp welcomes all qualified candidates who have authorization to work in the United States to apply - HashiCorp will not be sponsoring visas for this role at this time. 

 

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“HashiCorp is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. HashiCorp will be the hiring entity. By proceeding with this application you understand that HashiCorp will share your personal information with other IBM subsidiaries involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here: link to IBM privacy statement.”

Top Skills

Bash
Devops Engineering
Hashicorp Tools
Python
Rest Apis
Software Engineering
System Administration
Vault
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,200 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

HashiCorp was founded by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar in 2012 with the goal of revolutionizing datacenter management: application development, delivery, and maintenance. The datacenter of today is very different than the datacenter of yesterday, and we think the datacenter of tomorrow is just around the corner.

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