Technical Support Engineer - Madrid
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Job description
- Ability to handle a range of urgent to minor support requests during business hours, with occasional off-hours scheduled work and on-call shifts.
- Establish and constantly build upon a solid technical understanding of Neo4j and how our customers build, deploy and manage applications using our graph platform.
- Collaborate effectively within Customer Success, Product Engineering, and other Neo4j teams to understand and resolve customer issues completely and expediently.
- Constantly work to streamline and improve processes, tools, Neo4j's product offerings, and the overall customer experience.
- Know when to seek help, and always be willing and open to offering expertise and assistance to colleagues and customers alike.
- Effectively communicate with all levels of customer contacts including CTOs, management, developers and operations teams.
- Provide valuable guidance and insight through email, telephone, remote conferencing and occasionally in-person engagements.
- Work with Product Management and Product Engineering to help define and drive fixes and enhancements to address customer needs.
- Passion for solving Customer problems.
- Take responsibility and ownership with Customer problems.
Technical Skills:
- Timely triage varying issues based on error messages, log files, threads dumps, stack traces, sample code, and other available data points.
- Troubleshoot performance issues in JVM based software (4j means for Java).
- Consult with customers on Cypher query tuning (SQL for graphs) and data model design to address performance needs and expanding use cases.
- Embrace Neo4j as a part of the customer's overall architecture, with a need to advise and troubleshoot client application driver connections from official drivers in the following languages/frameworks: Java, Spring, JavaScript, Python, .NET, Go and the JDBC API.
- Review and provide suggested improvements to Java User Defined Procedures (and UDFs) and other Neo4j Java API questions (Java experience preferred).
- Efficiently troubleshoot cluster issues across multiple servers, data centers, and regions, in a variety of clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc), virtual, and bare metal environments.
- Possess demonstrated proficiency in Linux (primarily) and Windows (secondary) environments (#1 and #2 most common OS's, respectively).
- Background in database technologies (SQL, noSQL ) or competing graph database technologies.
- Docker and Kubernetes, distributed technologies and clustering
- Nice to have: Graph Data Science technology experience, UI, UX
Requirements
A Technical Support Engineer at Neo4j is comfortable troubleshooting technical issues, speaking with customers about their needs, questions, and concerns, and working with their colleagues as part of a growing team distributed across the globe. Specific qualifications for the role include, * B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or Engineering, or other technical fields strongly considered
- Occasional travel, up to 20% expected
- Preferable prior experience in a customer facing support role
About the company
Neo4j, the Graph Database & Analytics leader, helps organisations find hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily and quickly. Customers leverage the structure of their connected data to reveal new ways of solving their most pressing business problems, with Neo4j’s full graph stack and a vibrant community of developers, data scientists and architects across hundreds of Fortune 500 companies. Visit neo4j.com.