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Sr. Support Engineer

Sr. Support Engineer - Designated Support

Hybrid - Austin, TX

*Must be located in Austin, TX*

*Sr. Support Engineer:

HashiCorp is looking for an experienced customer facing engineering professional to join its
Designated Support Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a role that has a
direct impact on HashiCorp’s fast growing business. You are a fit if you thrive in a fast-paced
culture that values essential communication, collaboration, constant learning, and iteration. You
are a self-motivated, tactful, detail-oriented person with an insatiable desire to learn new
technology and an eye for automation, customer experience, process improvement, and
efficient problem solving.

The Senior Support Engineer will be a key member of the Designated Support Team within the Global Support and Services organization and advocate for customer satisfaction and success.

The Senior Support Engineer will troubleshoot complex issues related to Terraform and work to find viable solutions while maintaining detailed communication with customers and responsiveness to their needs. The Senior Support Engineer will grow and maintain detailed knowledge and familiarity with Strategic customers’ environments, configurations, and use cases. They will contribute to product growth and development via attending product meetings. The Senior Support Engineer will attend customer meetings as needed to help identify, debug, and resolve customer issues and will serve as a liaison between the customer and HashiCorp engineering. When possible, the Senior Support Engineer will update and improve product documentation, guide feature development, and build tools to make the support team as a whole more successful.

In this role you can expect to:

Perform all tasks expected of a Senior Support Engineer, Terraform

Provide the highest level of customer service and technical support to specific named accounts
Reproduce and debug customer issues by building or using existing test environments
and tools.
Be effective at troubleshooting external services such as networking, storage, memory or OS level operations
Communicate tactfully with customers: gather info, provide diagnostic and resolution
steps, convey process and product guidance
Solve incoming technical support requests within SLA, including high-severity urgent
Cases from both a general queue or from specific named accounts
Continuously increase knowledge and achieve Subject Matter Expert (SME) level knowledge of the product
Proactively learn and document customer environment, configuration and use case
details
Participate in high-level sync calls with customers as needed
Identify and communicate product usage trends, bugs, and feature requests at weekly
product engineering meetings
Collaborate with account managers to schedule, coordinate, and lead customer
debugging calls
Document and record all activity with customers in accordance with both internal and
external security standards
Contribute to product documentation and customer knowledge base
Continuously improve process and tools in collaboration with the team
Periodic on-call rotation for production-down issues

Goals:
30 days: you should be able to –

Complete first 30 days of onboarding tasks

60 days: you should be able to -

Holistic understanding of TFE and the interaction with the TF ecosystem
Successfully perform all common workflows within Terraform Enterprise
Be comfortable with Terraform Cloud (TFC)
Deep dive into Terraform Core/CLI
Provision and bootstrap TFE instance
Locate and unpack the customer log files. Familiarity with its contents
Effectively search for prior similar issues within ticketing system and the knowledge base
Author one customer knowledge base article from area of subject matter expertise

90 days: you should be able to -

Consistently contribute to Knowledge Base
Effectively triage and respond to a production down issue with minimal assistance
Run point on a live customer install without assistance
Independently find points of error and identify root cause in the customer log files and report relevant details to engineering
Contribute to product documentation and best practices guides
Collaborate or comment on Engineering RFCs and PRDs
Take initiative to write PRDs or RFCs
Identify patterns and trends of issues and report up effectively to management
Complete Terraform Certification successfully

REQUIREMENTS

5 years of Support Engineering experience (or comparable customer-facing technical
role), preferably for mission-critical software
Production experience with Terraform or Terraform Enterprise
DevOps Engineering, Software Engineering, and/or System Administration experience is
a huge plus
Expertise in Open Source and SaaS is a major advantage
Docker and Kubernetes as a plus
Experience troubleshooting and resolving urgent, high-visibility technical problems
Experience communicating clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing
Experience working with Enterprise customers and advocating for customer experience
Familiarity with Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, Bash, or Go
Expert level knowledge of PostgreSQL Databases a plus
Ability to read complex code for troubleshooting and familiarity with GitHub
Able to work from the Austin, TX office 2-3 days a week
This role will be covering east coast accounts and will require this person to cover east coast hours