Technical Support Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>At Braze, we have found our people. We’re a genuinely approachable, exceptionally kind, and intensely passionate crew.</p> <p>We seek to ignite that passion by setting high standards, championing teamwork, and creating work-life harmony as we collectively navigate rapid growth on a global scale while striving for greater equity and opportunity – inside and outside our organization.</p> <p>To flourish here, you must be prepared to set a high bar for yourself and those around you. There is always a way to contribute: Acting with autonomy, having accountability and being open to new perspectives are essential to our continued success.</p> <p>Our deep curiosity to learn and our eagerness to share diverse passions with others gives us balance and injects a one-of-a-kind vibrancy into our culture.</p> <p>If you are driven to solve exhilarating challenges and have a bias toward action in the face of change, you will be empowered to make a real impact here, with a sharp and passionate team at your back. If Braze sounds like a place where you can thrive, we can’t wait to meet you.</p></div><p><strong>WHAT YOU'LL DO</strong></p> <p>As a Technical Support Engineer, you will be a part of the most technical team within Braze’s Go-to-Market organization – Global Technical Support Engineering. As such, you’ll function as the primary technical escalation point for a wide array of customer-facing teams, including Sales, Customer Success, and Technical Support. Drawing upon your software engineering skills, as well as in-depth knowledge of Braze’s code base and product functionality, you will investigate and resolve highly technical, escalated customer issues. Additionally, you’ll review customer SDK integration code, build custom data export and migration scripts according to customer specifications, and answer complex, nuanced product behavior and bug confirmation questions.</p> <p>Beyond interfacing with Go-to-Market teams, you’ll also closely collaborate with the Product Engineering team, serving as a nexus between the two organizations. In this capacity you will acquire mastery over one or more high impact product areas, and apply it to a variety of ends: building internal tools, fixing bugs, reviewing code written by your peers, and resolving highly complex technical support inquiries typically suited to Product Engineering. Furthermore, you will be a key advisor to the Product team, identifying recurring customer issues and developing product solutions to those issues, thereby reducing support ticket volume and improving the product, as well as the customer experience.</p> <p>Lastly, you’ll have the opportunity to share the engineering knowledge gleaned from your work with Product Engineering, crafting in-depth technical troubleshooting guides and knowledge articles, as well as leading the technical enablement of various customer-facing teams, including Technical Support, Technical Account Management, and Solutions Architects.</p> <p><strong>WHO YOU ARE</strong><strong><br></strong></p> <ul> <li>BS in Computer Science (or equivalent coding bootcamp or technical experience)</li> <li>2-3 years of professional (or equivalent) experience developing and optimizing web and/or mobile applications, with a focus on performance and scalability</li> <li>Strong understanding of distributed systems, data structures and algorithms</li> <li>Professional (or equivalent) experience with any of: Ruby, Rails, Swift, Objective-C, Java, or Kotlin</li> <li>Professional (or equivalent) experience with APIs, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript</li> <li>2-3 years of experience supporting technical products, preferably within a SaaS B2B environment</li> <li>Proficiency in utilizing case management tools, such as Salesforce or Jira Service Desk, to efficiently manage and resolve escalated customer issues</li> <li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a talent for synthesizing complex ideas into clear, understandable terms for ... (truncated, view full listing at source)