Technical Support Engineer

Snyk Snyk · Enterprise · Ottawa, ON

Technical Support Engineer role at Snyk, a company focused on secure AI software development. The role involves interacting with customers, understanding and reproducing issues, diving into the codebase, escalating complex problems to engineering, and representing customer needs in product prioritization. It also offers opportunities to improve support processes, write documentation, and develop tooling for the customer success team, with potential future transitions into developer roles.

What you'd actually do

  1. Answering our users’ questions through email, chat, and GitHub issues.
  2. Understanding, reproducing and (where you can) resolving the issues that our customers encounter.
  3. Diving into our codebase to figure out where the issue lies and what a good solution might look like.
  4. Escalating to engineering to resolve highly technical issues.
  5. Ensuring that every user facing an issue knows exactly when they’ll hear back from us and how we’re doing with solving their problem.

Skills

Required

  • helping people
  • excellent customer experience
  • logical approach to solving problems
  • clear communicator
  • curious
  • explaining things to others

Nice to have

  • working with others’ code
  • GitHub or other source control tools
  • experience working closely with technical teams
  • provided support for a technical product
  • worked in QA
  • taking first steps to becoming a software engineer

What the JD emphasized

  • secure AI software development
  • AI transforms how software is built
  • AI-native Developer Security Platform