Technical Support Engineer, Software
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Job description
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact-helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
- You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won't be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, and countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper-growth environment.
- You're energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
- You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best.
In this role, you will
- Product Expertise: Become an expert on Samsara's product portfolio of complete Internet of Things ("IoT") solutions combining hardware, software, and cloud to bring real-time visibility, analytics, and AI to operations across multiple industries.
- Technical Troubleshooting: Use your technical knowledge and product expertise to troubleshoot and resolve customer issues with medium to high complexity.
- Responsiveness & Resolution: Respond to customers and resolve their inquiries in a timely and helpful manner with a primary focus on meeting our SLA goals.
- Documentation: Partner with Enablement to author and maintain customer-facing knowledge base articles to help improve the self-serviceability for our end users.
- Partnerships: Work closely to develop partnerships with our Engineering and Product teams in order to reproduce bugs and build testbeds as necessary.
- Feedback Loop: Provide direct feedback to Support Management for product and process improvements to help enhance the customer experience.
- Team Player: Champion, role model, and embed Samsara's cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
Requirements
The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, experience in a technical support role, proven customer-facing skills, and strong communication skills. You understand the day-to-day aspects of customer support, including managing tickets, building knowledge base articles, and providing product feedback to Engineering and PM teams., * B.S. or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical), Mathematics, Science, Business, or another analytical field.
- 2-5 years of experience in support, engineering, or other technical roles.
- Strong familiarity with using CRMs like Zendesk or Salesforce.
- Technical know-how - you're comfortable interfacing with engineers, translating complex technical concepts into everyday language, and working with SaaS systems.
- Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills coupled with the ability to influence individual contributors and leaders across the company.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, you can speak both Engineer and Human.
- Strong bias for action, ability to dive deep, and insistence on the highest standards.
- Ability to work in a hyper-growth environment with shifting priorities.
- Willingness to work flexible hours with the possibility of rotating coverage for some nights, weekends, and holidays., * Experience with SaaS platform operations or you like tinkering with python, JSON, scripting, databases, or cloud systems.
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish
The range of annual base salary for full-time employees for this position is below. Please note that base pay offered may vary depending on factors including your city of residence, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Benefits & conditions
Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, and much, much more. Take a look at our Benefits site to learn more.