Technical Support Engineer - Senior Technical Support Engineer

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Seattle, WA +3

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Technical Support Engineer to provide the highest level of support and expertise to their largest and most strategic accounts. This role involves serving as a Trusted Advisor, solving critical enterprise cases, providing proactive support through monitoring and analysis, and advocating for customer priorities internally. The engineer will also lead the resolution of critical technical issues, assist developers with integrations, participate in project work to improve support tools and processes, and act as a Subject Matter Expert. The role requires a deep understanding of Salesforce architecture, strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, and experience with web technologies, APIs, and databases.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as a Trusted Advisor, drive conversations with our customer's Business Stakeholders armed with best practices for enterprise architecture functions such as Security, Performance, Development Process, Release Management and Application Governance.
  2. Solve highly visible, technical, global and strategic, enterprise cases and ensure highest levels of customer satisfaction with exposure to all skill groups/areas of the product/platform for the most critical issues
  3. Provide proactive support, including but not limited to; proactive system/limit monitoring and communications, deep Splunk analysis, creating definitions for proactive alerts, working with Customer Centric Engineering and Technical Enablement teams on proactive tuning, and provide recommendations to minimize potential service disruptions.
  4. Advocate Signature Support customer’s priorities internally within Salesforce. Liaise and work closely with the Salesforce R&D and Infrastructure teams on escalated technical issues and product roadmap changes/new features as well as working with R&D on pilot programs
  5. Lead the resolution of critical technical issues, providing prompt and complete resolution to technical challenges and business issues

Skills

Required

  • Deep understanding of Salesforce multi-tenant architecture.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of prior experience in Technical Support and/or 3+ years of development experience (Senior role) 2+ (Technical Support Engineer)
  • Current Salesforce Administrator Certification.
  • Demonstrated analysis, problem solving and skills troubleshooting expertise.
  • Ability to effectively prioritize and escalate customer issues as required.
  • Comfortable interacting with all levels of customer and SFDC management
  • Ability to multi-task and perform effectively under pressure.
  • Solid understanding of Internet technologies: firewalls, web servers, web proxy servers, etc.
  • Understanding of database concepts and data management (RDBMS) and SQL.
  • Solid understanding of Object-Oriented design and core programming concepts.
  • Solid knowledge of XML, preferably experience using server-to-server web services (SOAP / REST).
  • Strong experience in both the front-end web tier (JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, DHTML, CSS, and cross-browser development) and back end (Java,.Net,SQL) software development.
  • Understanding of integration technologies: Computer Telephony Integration, Data Cleanse/De-Duplication; Data Replication, Transactional data to and from Salesforce objects.

Nice to have

  • Salesforce Certifications- Advanced Admin, App Builder, Platform Developer
  • VisualForce/Apex Knowledge.
  • CRM domain knowledge.
  • Previous experience with Salesforce.com CRM and its technologies.

What the JD emphasized

  • highest level of support
  • highest levels of customer satisfaction
  • highest level of expertise