Senior Technical Support Engineer

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Tokyo, Japan

Senior Technical Support Engineer role at Salesforce, focusing on providing technical support for Cloud products within the AI CRM platform. The role involves managing customer issues, troubleshooting, and collaborating with internal teams to resolve product defects. While the company heavily emphasizes AI and uses AI tools in recruiting, the core responsibilities of this specific role are technical support and customer success, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide best in class technical support to customers, partners, and internal teams.
  2. Managing customer issues and escalations within our SalesForce CRM system
  3. Manage the technical support lifecycle all the way to successful resolution by analysing and reproducing problems and managing customer expectations throughout.
  4. Work with regional partners on proactive support, enablement, and guidance.
  5. Follow up on actions in a timely manner and with attention to detail.

Skills

Required

  • Java
  • debugging in Java or another Object-Oriented Programming Language
  • relational database management theory and practice – particularly Oracle and MS SQL Server
  • Windows and Linux (Red Hat and SuSE) flavours of operating system
  • Open API Specification (Swagger), web service frameworks, including REST and SOAP
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer/Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience
  • Minimum 5+ years of industry experience in supporting mission-critical software components

Nice to have

  • Cloud platforms like Azure, AWS or GCP
  • Network troubleshooting
  • exposure to cloud native applications/architecture