Support Engineer - Java

Smarsh•Pleasanton, CA

49d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a highly motivated R&D Support Engineer to join our engineering organization. In this role, you will serve as a critical technical bridge between our R&D teams, Customer Support, QA, and Product. You will troubleshoot complex issues, analyze production incidents, drive root-cause investigations, and contribute to continuous improvement in product quality and engineering workflows. This role includes dual responsibility across two environments: Supporting and troubleshooting within our federal enclave environment, ensuring compliance, stability, and controlled-process operations. Supporting and maintaining our AWS-based production environment, working closely with cloud infrastructure and modern deployment pipelines. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys problem solving, thrives in cross-team collaboration, and likes working at the intersection of development, operations, cloud systems, and customer-facing teams.

Requirements

3+ years of experience in technical support, DevOps, SRE, QA, or an R&D-adjacent engineering role.
Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems, APIs, microservices, or cloud environments.
Hands on experience with logs, debugging tools, and monitoring platforms (e.g., Kibana, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).
Solid scripting/coding ability (Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar).
Excellent communication skills; able to articulate complex problems clearly.
Ability to work across secure and cloud environments, including adapting workflows for federal enclave constraints

Nice To Haves

Experience working in or supporting federal enclave / restricted-access environments.
Experience supporting a FedRAMP certified product in production.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and build/test automation.
Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
Background in incident management, postmortems, or SRE best practices.
Understanding of networking, databases, and API debugging tools (Postman, Fiddler, etc.).

Responsibilities

Diagnose, reproduce, and analyze highly technical product issues reported from the field across both the federal enclave and AWS production environments.
Lead root cause investigations, document findings, and partner with engineering teams to implement corrective actions.
Monitor and analyze production performance indicators, logs, telemetry, and alerts from multiple environments.
Provide technical summaries and incident reports to engineering leadership and escalation managers.
Work closely with development teams to understand new features, architectural changes, and potential failure points.
Partner with QA to validate fixes, verify edge-case scenarios, and enhance test coverage around recurring incidents.
Provide feedback based on real-world usage and cross environment incident patterns to reduce regressions.
Build and maintain debugging tools, scripts, dashboards, and test harnesses that improve troubleshooting in both secure and cloud environments.
Identify recurring issues and propose enhancements to observability, stability, and supportability.
Improve internal processes for incident handling, cross-team communication, and reporting.
Serve as the technical escalation point for Support teams, delivering deep-dive explanations and guidance.
Translate complex technical findings into clear, actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Participate in on-call rotations as needed.