Technical Support Engineer (fixed Term Contract)

Snyk Snyk · Enterprise · Sydney, Australia

This role is a Technical Support Engineer for Snyk, a company focused on secure AI software development. The engineer will interact with customers, understand and resolve technical issues, collaborate with the engineering team, and contribute to improving support processes. The role involves diving into the codebase, documenting solutions, and representing customer needs in product prioritization. While the company is AI-focused, the role itself is customer-facing support, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Answering our users’ through our ticketing system and video calls.
  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. Involving 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

  • Excellent customer experience
  • Logical approach to problem solving and prioritization
  • Clear communication (verbal and written)
  • Curiosity and willingness to explore new challenges
  • Interest in security or open source software

Nice to have

  • Used Snyk in the past
  • Interest in developing technical skills
  • Experience working with code
  • Experience with GitHub or other source control tools
  • Previous experience working closely with technical teams and external customers
  • Experience providing support for a technical product
  • Experience in QA
  • Aspiring software engineer

What the JD emphasized

  • talking directly to active and prospective Snyk customers every day
  • work directly alongside our talented engineering team to help solve the most complex issues
  • Involving engineering to resolve highly technical issues
  • main point of contact for our customers
  • balance the needs of our enterprise customers with those of our self-service online users