[Hiring] Support Engineer @Elastic

Role Description

Elastic’s Support team is unlike any other on Earth: while we are spread across more than 12 time zones and 28 countries, we operate as a unit. We are massively distributed yet lovingly intimate. The service we deliver is caring, empathetic, and human yet ambitious, direct, and comprehensive. We don’t do it alone, as we are tightly integrated with our core developers in a way that is real, genuine, and never taken for granted. Our team is a dream for someone seeking honest, hard work and rewards. It is a nightmare for anyone afraid to ask questions or be questioned — always forward, never backward. We are not trying to change the world, we already have. We’re just waiting for everyone else to catch up. We have our good days and our not so good days, and we face them together, as a team. We listen. We solve. We guide. We get it. And we’re excited to bring on a new team member to love.

What You Will Be Doing

• Providing an expert level of service to our customers
• Ensuring technical customer issues are serviced within our contractual SLA, and managed to resolution
• Maintain strong relationships with our customers for the delivery of technical support
• Have a mindset of continuous improvement, in terms of efficiency of support processes and customer satisfaction
• Work across multi-cultural and geographically distributed teams
• Contribute to product documentation, customer knowledge base, and best practices guides
• Provide technical leadership in Elastic communities and Knowledge-Centered Service methodology and process
• Creation of lab environments to replicate customer issues
• Communicate tactfully with customers: gather information, provide diagnostic and resolution steps, convey process and product guidance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technical support or related customer-facing role
• Experience with the Elastic Stack preferred
• A technical background in fields like System Administration, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, etc.
• A customer-oriented focus
• Experience in a Linux/Unix environment
• Strong understanding of cloud-native and container-based distributed systems like Kubernetes
• Cloud technologies such as AWS, GCP, Azure and frameworks such as Kubernetes and Docker
• Understand the Product Lifecycle and future direction for the supported products or product line
• Advanced level of hands-on generalist experience at: Java (e.g. JVMS & components), Operational Systems (e.g. Linux and Windows), Networks (e.g. LDAP, Load Balancers, Proxies, SSL)
• Experience with APIs and REST calls
• Experience with web/application servers (e.g. Tomcat, Apache, IIS, NGINX, Jboss)
• Advanced troubleshooting skills in web technology systems (e.g. HTML, CSS, Javascript)
• Experience with SSO, SAML, Active Directory, etc.

Bonus Points

• Knowledge of databases or search software technologies
• Experience with SaaS and/or Distributed systems
• You are a Team player; ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a positive and adaptable approach
• Proven strong technical understanding of software products
• Collaboration with Developer teams on escalation issues
• Curiosity is key! You have already researched our products and possibly downloaded our stack to test it out

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave