Technical Support Engineer 3

Twilio Twilio · Enterprise · India · Remote · Customer Support

This role is for a Technical Support Engineer 3 at Twilio, based in India. The primary responsibility is to support customers using the Twilio platform, acting as a subject matter expert for Twilio's APIs and SDKs. The role involves resolving complex customer requests, identifying upsell opportunities, managing escalations, and documenting interactions. The engineer will use Twilio's AI tools and other automations to assist customers and will contribute to knowledge articles. Required qualifications include 5-7 years of experience in a technical support role, strong troubleshooting skills in programming languages like JavaScript, Python, or Java, experience with APIs and web technologies, and understanding of networking fundamentals.

What you'd actually do

  1. Understands and resolves complex customer requests via phone/email/chat/side channel/live support or any other support/communication channel. Identify adoption and upsell opportunities for customers and make the appropriate connections. Develops knowledge on multiple specialty areas.
  2. Communicate complex concepts to customers. Anticipates customer questions and proactively responds with suggestions
  3. Identifies and responds to customer escalations. Effectively work multiple support channels (chat, phone, social, etc). Work on one concurrency chat.
  4. Prioritize the queue based on status, priority, entitlement. Follow guidance prioritizing caseload to achieve SLA compliance targets. Meet SLA requirements per channel/role
  5. Follow established guidelines on tagging, categorizing, merging tickets. Leverage runbooks/wiki, macros, and other tools to efficiently resolve tickets. Escalate to senior technical resources to drive ticket resolution

Skills

Required

  • 5-7 years of experience
  • Proven experience in a Technical Support Engineer, Application Support, or Support Engineer role, supporting complex software products or platforms
  • Strong programming/scripting troubleshooting skills in at least one of: JavaScript (preferably with Node.js) / Python / Java
  • API or enterprise software experience, including technical troubleshooting skills. Hands‑on experience with web technologies and APIs, including: REST APIs/ HTTP protocol concepts/ API testing tools such as Postman or curl / Webhooks
  • Solid understanding of networking and real-time communication, including: VoIP / SIP / WebRTC / TCP/UDP networking fundamentals / TLS/SSL
  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across: Application logs and API calls, Network traces (packet captures, basic analysis), Browser developer tools (for web-based products)
  • Fluency in English (verbal, comprehension, listening, and writing)
  • Availability to work non-standard (shifts / weekend rotation), on-call rotation weekend and holiday hours.
  • Ability to diplomatically address customer concerns and provide feedback

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent certifications and work experience
  • Escalation Management: Knowing when to escalate and ability to de-escalate difficult/complex customer situations in a live environment
  • Basic case management experience/skills
  • Strong problem-solving skills and critical thinking

What the JD emphasized

  • complex customer requests
  • complex concepts
  • customer escalations
  • complex software products or platforms
  • technical troubleshooting skills
  • technical troubleshooting skills
  • complex customer requests