Associate Customer Support Engineer (Remote)

India
Customer Support /
Full-time /
Remote
Mattermost provides secure, workflow-centric collaboration for technical and operational teams that need to meet nation-state-level security and trust requirements. We serve technology, public sector, national defense, and financial services industries with customers ranging from tech giants to the world’s largest banks, to the U.S. Department of Defense and governmental agencies around the world. 

Our self-hosted and cloud offerings provide integrated workflow automation, AI-acceleration, ChatOps with team messaging, audio calling and screen share on an open core platform vetted and deployed by the world’s most secure and mission critical organizations. 

We co-build the future of collaboration with over 4,000 open source project contributors who’ve provided over 30,000 code improvements towards our shared product vision, which is translated into 20 languages.
To learn more, visit www.mattermost.com

As an Associate Customer Support Engineer, you will be a primary point of contact for our customers to help them solve problems and utilize the Mattermost solution to the fullest. A key part of your job will be to be the first respondent to tickets, gather relevant logs/data, triage the issue and escalate to the appropriate team when necessary. You will spend time learning and understanding not only our software but also the full stack of software that runs Mattermost. In addition, you will work cross functionally to resolve customer issues in a timely fashion and will communicate important feedback and insights from customers in order to improve our product and services.

Duties and Responsibilities:

    • Triage customer issues, debug, and find possible workarounds.
    • Communicate via support tickets, email, Mattermost chat and video conferencing with customers.
    • Submit and comment on bug reports and feature requests based on customer interactions.
    • Create or update reproduction environments for customer issues.
    • Create or update documentation as necessary.
    • Engage with the other Mattermost support teams to provide consistent, high quality global support.
    • Engage with the development team to escalate bugs, solve problems, or obtain missing information.
    • Ensure the knowledge we gain from running Mattermost is shared with customers and users.
    • Maintain good ticket performance and satisfaction.
    • Meet or exceed SLA times consistently.

Required Background and Skills:

    • Previous technical support experience, preferably in open source and/or system administration.  
    • Experience working across teams to resolve support issues (engineering, sales, product, CSM).
    • Ability to triage, reproduce, test and document bugs.
    • Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly in written and spoken English with customers via tickets, Zoom calls, etc.
    • Experience with a support ticketing system preferred.
    • Experience writing support content.
    • Experience managing the entire issue lifecycle, from customer, to development team, to resolution
    • Experience with Linux and DevOps environment, basic system administration, log analysis.
    • Experience with a programming or scripting language.
Mattermost is an EEO Employer. We are a remote-first, open source company.

We are constantly working towards adding more countries/regions to this list, but first we need to make sure we are compliant with local laws and regulations, which takes time. 

Mattermost is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people from all walks of life. We don't discriminate against staff or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!