Technical Support Engineer

Starburst•San Francisco, CA

1d•Remote

About The Position

The Technical Support Engineer (TSE) acts as a Starburst SME for a book of Majors and Strategic accounts. The TSE is responsible for answering all technical questions within both standard and custom deployment environments and assisting with supported LTS upgrades. The TSE is also responsible for peer training and development, personal continued education, and contributing to our reference documentation. They will coordinate closely with Support leadership, Engineering, Product and Accounts teams to ensure our customers receive a value driven enterprise experience. A TSE is able to work independently, with minimal guidance, and demonstrates an expert degree of proficiency in both SEP and Galaxy.

Requirements

5+ years of support experience
3+ years of Big Data, Docker, Kubernetes and cloud technologies experience
Ability to Travel: This role will require 25% in-person travel for purposes including but not limited to new hire onboarding, team and department offsites, customer engagements, and other company events. Actual travel expectations may vary by role and business needs.
Big Data (Hadoop, Data Lakes, Spark)
Docker and Kubernetes
Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Security - Authentication (LDAP, OAuth2.0) and Authorization technologies
SSL/TLS
Linux Skills
DBMS Concepts/SQL Exposure
Languages: SQL, Java, Python, Bash

Responsibilities

Provide support for standard and custom deployments
Answer break/fix and non-break/fix technical questions through SFDC ticketing system
Efficiently reproduce reported issues by leveraging tools (minikube, minitrino, docker-compose, etc.), identify root causes, and provide solutions
Open SEP and Galaxy bug reports in Jira and feature requests in Aha!
Provide upgrade support upon customer request
Conduct regularly scheduled technical check-ins with each BU
Contribute to our reference documentation
Lead peer training
Consultant to our content teams
Own your personal technical education journey
Contribute to or drive components of departmental and cross functional initiatives
Identify areas of opportunity with potential solutions for inefficiencies or obstacles within the team and cross-functionally
Provide feedback to your manager on continued ed. opportunities, project ideas, etc.