We're building the infrastructure that enables innovationHashiCorpSenior Support Engineer II - VaultWe're building the infrastructure that enables innovationWhy HashiCorpOur suite of multi-cloud infrastructure automation products are the underpinnings of the largest enterprises in the world, who rely on our solutions to provision, secure, connect, and run their critical applications to deliver crucial services, communications tools, and entertainment platforms to the world. We're building a once-in-a-generation infrastructure company with a unique approach rather than focusing on specific technologies, and we build products and solutions that support real-world workflows spanning the multiple cloud environments that nearly every organization worldwide is using today.About the roleHashiCorp is looking for an experienced customer-facing engineering professional to join its 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. You are a fit if you thrive in a fast-paced culture that values essential communication, collaboration, constant learning, and iteration. You are a self-motivated, tactful, detail-oriented person with an insatiable desire to learn new technology and an eye for automation, customer experience, process improvement, and efficient problem solving.Reporting to the Manager, Support Engineering, the Senior Support Engineer will be a key member of the Global Support & Services organization and advocate for customer satisfaction and success. The Senior 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 Senior 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. When possible the Senior Support Engineer will update and improve product documentation, guide feature development, and build tools to make the support team as a whole more successful. This position is remote and involves collaborating with a global, remote team.In this role you can expect to: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.Become an SME and serve as an escalation path for junior engineers providing guidance and assistance to troubleshoot issues.Work to respond to customer needs as and when they arise, including outside normal start and finish times of work if needed to ensure necessary levels of service.Develop and deliver training materials and workshops to improve productivity.Participate in onboarding buddy program to mentor junior engineers.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.You may be a good fit for our team if you have:Minimum seven years of Support Engineering experience (or comparable customer-facing technical role), preferably for mission-critical software.Must have experience with Kubernetes.Experience with Vault & other HashiCorp tools is a plus.DevOps Engineering and/or System Administration, Openshift experience is a huge plus.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, microservices 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 ethics, attention to detail, and ability to learn new technologies quickly.Excellent problem solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.Hashicorp Product Certification is a plus.AWS, K8, Azure, GCP or equivalent industry cloud certifications.What you'll be responsible forStakeholder Engagement: Partner with stakeholders to understand specifications, business requirements, and communicate insights.Scripting and Automation: Develop scripts and automated workflows to improve the efficiency and accuracy of repeated tasks.Test Automation: Create and implement code tests and software test automation.Skills you'll needCollaboration: Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals.Numerical problem solving: Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems.Attention to detail: Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exist in information and deliverables.
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