Senior Technical Support Engineer

Cyera Cyera · Vertical AI · St. Louis, MO · Customer Success

This role is for a Senior Technical Support Engineer at Cyera, a company focused on AI security and data trust infrastructure. The engineer will provide deep technical resolution for complex product issues, troubleshoot product behavior, reproduce issues, validate workarounds, and collaborate with engineering and product teams. Responsibilities include owning escalated cases, analyzing logs, contributing to product feedback, and mentoring junior engineers. The role requires strong troubleshooting skills, experience with enterprise cloud/SaaS/cybersecurity platforms, and familiarity with data security and AI security concepts.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own escalated technical cases from Tier 1 and drive them through investigation, resolution, workaround, or clean escalation to Tier 3.
  2. Diagnose and troubleshoot complex product behavior related to data discovery, classification, permissions, DLP workflows, AI security, access analysis, connectors, integrations, and remediation workflows.
  3. Reproduce customer issues where possible, analyze logs and system behavior, validate configurations, and isolate likely root cause.
  4. Develop and validate customer-safe workarounds for known issues, configuration gaps, or environmental constraints.
  5. Prepare high-quality Tier 3 or Engineering escalations that include technical evidence, reproduction steps, logs, environment details, severity, priority, customer impact, suspected root cause, and requested next action.

Skills

Required

  • Customer-first communication style
  • Strong customer ownership skills
  • Own escalated technical cases from Tier 1
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot complex product behavior
  • Reproduce customer issues
  • Analyze logs and system behavior
  • Validate configurations
  • Isolate likely root cause
  • Develop and validate customer-safe workarounds
  • Collaborate with Tier 1
  • Prepare high-quality Tier 3 or Engineering escalations
  • Maintain disciplined updates in Zendesk, Jira, Salesforce, Confluence, or other systems of record
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, DevOps, CSE, and OCTO
  • Contribute to case reviews, backlog reviews, bug triage, incident follow-ups, and support readiness activities
  • Identify product supportability gaps, documentation gaps, defect patterns, and recurring technical blockers
  • Provide actionable feedback to Product and Engineering
  • Create and maintain troubleshooting guides, internal runbooks, known-issue documentation, escalation templates, and knowledge base articles
  • Mentor Tier 1 engineers
  • Stay current on Cyera product releases, known issues, support procedures, and relevant technical domains
  • Participate in on-call, weekend, holiday, or after-hours coverage
  • Associate degree or equivalent practical experience required
  • 3+ years of experience in technical support, support engineering, escalation support, SaaS support, cybersecurity support, or another technical customer-facing role
  • Strong troubleshooting skills
  • Experience supporting enterprise cloud, SaaS, data security, cybersecurity, data governance, or infrastructure platforms
  • Hands-on experience with ticketing and escalation workflows using tools such as Zendesk, Jira, Salesforce, Confluence, Slack, Teams, or similar systems
  • Working knowledge of SQL, APIs, logs, scripting concepts, web services, authentication, permissions, and cloud-based troubleshooting
  • Familiarity with data discovery, classification, permissions, DLP workflows, AI security, access analysis, connectors, and remediation workflows
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to prioritize work based on severity, customer impact, technical complexity, SLA risk, and business urgency
  • Ability to work autonomously in ambiguous situations
  • Willingness to participate in evening, weekend, holiday, or on-call coverage as business needs require

Nice to have

  • Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field preferred
  • Experience in cybersecurity, DSPM, DLP, IAM, SIEM, CASB, CNAPP, CSPM, vulnerability management, data privacy, or data protection domains
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, cloud networking, IAM, databases, storage systems, SaaS integrations, or enterprise identity providers
  • Experience with SSO, SAML, OAuth, SCIM, RBAC, service accounts, and permissions troubleshooting
  • Experience writing RCA summaries, defect reports, knowledge articles, troubleshooting runbooks, or escalation templates
  • Experience mentoring junior support engineers or improving technical support workflows

What the JD emphasized

  • AI security
  • data security
  • complex troubleshooting
  • deep investigation
  • customer-first communication
  • strong customer ownership
  • complex investigations
  • escalated technical cases
  • complex product behavior
  • isolate likely root cause
  • customer-safe workarounds
  • high-quality Tier 3 or Engineering escalations
  • product-impacting issues
  • break/fix ownership
  • product supportability gaps
  • documentation gaps
  • defect patterns
  • recurring technical blockers
  • actionable feedback
  • troubleshooting guides
  • internal runbooks
  • known-issue documentation
  • escalation templates
  • knowledge base articles
  • mentor Tier 1 engineers
  • technical troubleshooting
  • ticket hygiene
  • escalation criteria
  • customer communication best practices
  • current on Cyera product releases
  • known issues
  • support procedures
  • relevant technical domains
  • on-call, weekend, holiday, or after-hours coverage
  • urgent support needs
  • Associate degree or equivalent practical experience required
  • bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field preferred
  • 3+ years of experience in technical support, support engineering, escalation support, SaaS support, cybersecurity support, or another technical customer-facing role
  • Strong troubleshooting skills
  • demonstrated ability to investigate complex issues from intake through resolution
  • reproduce problems
  • isolate root cause
  • document findings
  • drive timely outcomes across internal teams
  • Experience supporting enterprise cloud, SaaS, data security, cybersecurity, data governance, or infrastructure platforms
  • Hands-on experience with ticketing and escalation workflows
  • Working knowledge of SQL, APIs, logs, scripting concepts, web services, authentication, permissions, and cloud-based troubleshooting
  • Familiarity with data discovery, classification, permissions, DLP workflows, AI security, access analysis, connectors, and remediation workflows
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • explain technical findings clearly to customers and internal stakeholders
  • Ability to prioritize work based on severity, customer impact, technical complexity, SLA risk, and business urgency
  • Ability to work autonomously in ambiguous situations
  • issues with incomplete documentation or unclear ownership
  • Willingness to participate in evening, weekend, holiday, or on-call coverage as business needs require