Job Locations: Austin, TX This role requires full time work over the Weekends. Candidates should be comfortable working with a "Sun-Thursday" or "Tues-Sat" 5-day working week schedule. About the Department
The Customer Support Team solves complicated problems and answers technical inquiries via phone, email, chat, and social media. Whether it is a Wordpress blogger using our services for free or a global Enterprise business with petabytes of web traffic, our team is always eager to assist. We are the eyes and ears of Cloudflare, acting as the real-time voice of the customer to help communicate their needs and real-world use cases back to the rest of the company - to help build a better service and future product development.
What You'll do
Do you love solving complex technical problems and interacting with people? Are you passionate about helping customers and are a standout colleague? Cloudflare is seeking a Technical Customer Support Engineer to join our team. You will work directly with our customers and cross-functionally to solve a variety of technical issues. This is a position where you will learn the inner workings of Cloudflare's products and gain a deeper understanding of internet technologies.
Skills, Knowledge, and Experience
- 2+ years working within a Technical Support team solving various technical issues
- Self-driven and capable of learning new technologies/systems/features with little guidance
- Fundamental understanding how the Internet works (OSI Model); Cloudflare has a variety of products that presently impact Layers 3, 4 & 7
- Experience troubleshooting network connectivity issues, BGP routing, and GRE tunnels
- Experience in command line, and tools, including curl, dig, traceroute, openssl, git
- Experience troubleshooting DNS, SSL/TLS, HTTP
- Experience in a web development and/or hosting environment such as installing and configuring web servers like Apache, Nginx, and IIS
- Experience writing scripts in Bash, Python, JavaScript, or other scripting language
Availability and Schedule Requirements
- Flexibility to work varying work schedules including; Pacific & Central time, holidays, weekends, more than 5 days in a row, or additional hours
- Ability to work on-site as needed out of one of our US based offices
Bonus Points
- You are familiar with Cloudflare and have a site actively using our platform
- You are comfortable with popular CRM/CMS solutions
Super Bonus Points
- You are fluent and can troubleshoot in Mandarin, Spanish, and Portuguese
Top Skills
What We Do
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
Why Work With Us
Cloudflare employees come from all walks of life. We are mission-driven, and our team is energized by a collaborative, creative environment that celebrates our differences and fosters new ways to grow together.
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