Designated Technical Support Engineer

Glean•San Francisco, CA

2d•$120,000 - $190,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Glean is seeking a Designated Technical Support Engineer to join its growing startup. This role involves providing proactive and reactive support to Glean customers, ensuring a best-in-class customer experience. The engineer will act as a trusted technical resource, managing customer issues, developing resolution plans, and driving continuous improvement. Key responsibilities include providing first response troubleshooting, assisting with configurations, educating customers, identifying and remediating system health issues, and handling customer-impacting alerts. The role requires close collaboration with internal teams to improve products, processes, and services, and to drive projects that enhance support efficiency and customer experience. This position is dedicated to select customers and may involve additional screenings, equipment handling, and extended on-call hours based on contractual obligations.

Requirements

Technically curious: you have a never-ending desire to add technical knowledge and skills to your personal toolkit and share those learnings with your peers
Fearless: you have an intense need to tackle the toughest customer issues and technically complex issues with the goal of driving customer satisfaction
Strong communicator: you are a professional presenter with superior interaction skills with both customers and internal teams
Detail-oriented: you are highly organized and methodical, ensuring all issues are managed to completion
Data-driven: you utilize metrics and objective measurements to assess success and improvement opportunities for yourself and for the customer experience
Problem solving: technical problem-solving skills including the ability to troubleshoot and isolate issues to their root cause
Ability to debug issues including searching & reading application logs, analyzing stack traces and browser trace files
Experience in at least one of the following disciplines: Customer Solutions Engineering, Support Engineering, Professional Services
Hands-on experience in at least one of the following: Search technologies, Knowledge technologies, SaaS-based system integrations
Experience with Cloud technologies in at least one of the following: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure
Must have experience in troubleshooting REST API issues
Working experience on SSO, SAML, and OAuth along with network troubleshooting
Able to fully document issues you manage and contribute to the support knowledge base

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of SQL/database
Basic Kubernetes
Intermediate/Advanced Linux
Experience in using Github, Jira & Confluence
Basic knowledge of LLM’s and how GPT works

Responsibilities

Own the proactive and reactive support for Glean customers by prioritizing issues for your designated customer(s)
Meet with your assigned customers regularly to review issues and develop resolution plans and drive continuous improvement in how you and your Glean teammates provide support to them
Be available to your assigned customers via collaborative communication channels consistently to ensure you are providing timely responses and updates on issues
Create and maintain customer-specific runbooks and knowledge articles
Provide first response, technical troubleshooting, resolution, and follow-through of customer issues and inquiries
Assist customers in the configuration, set-up, and verification of new content sources and product features to enable them to realize additional value for their users
Educate customers on the use of Glean product features
Identify system and user health issues, then create and execute remediation plans while coordinating and updating the customer accordingly
Handle customer-impacting alerts which require coordination with customer admin and system resources through resolution
Work closely with teams across Glean to drive product, process, and service improvements
Drive key improvement projects that will improve the scale and efficiency of support, while providing upgrades to the customers’ support experience
Coordinate all support activities with your assigned customer(s), which may include more stringent access and security processes, ensuring you move with high urgency for their issues.
Represent the unique needs of your assigned customer(s) with respect to product and security improvements that will improve the customer support experience