Home Based Technical Support Engineer Remote Jobs in Seattle, WA

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The Senior Technical Support Engineer is responsible for resolving the complex customer issues involving mission critical production environments, collaborating with team members, working to resolve escalations, and play a role in improving support processes. This role combines deep technical expertise, customer advocacy, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver exceptional customer outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Own and lead complex technical investigations and customer escalations.

• Partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, and other internal teams to drive timely issue resolution.

• Develop towards being subject matter expert for assigned products and supporting technologies.

• Participate in technical swarms, case reviews, and collaborative troubleshooting efforts.

• Mitigate escalations through proactive customer engagement and technical leadership.

• Develop deep expertise in FinOPs, cloud platforms, infrastructure technologies, and product integrations.

Customer Success

• Understand customer business objectives and align technical recommendations to those outcomes.

• Manage high-severity and high-impact customer cases.

• Maintain excellent customer communication throughout the support lifecycle.

• Adapt communication style appropriately for customers, executives, engineering teams, and support peers.

• Participate in customer calls and remote technical sessions as a technical expert.

• Drive successful outcomes while maintaining high customer satisfaction.

Knowledge Sharing and Mentorship

• Create, review, and approve technical documentation and knowledge articles.

• Deliver technical training sessions and contribute to internal enablement programs.

• Identify knowledge gaps and proactively share expertise across the team.

• Assist in developing and improving learning paths and technical training materials.

Operational Excellence

• Demonstrate exemplary case ownership, documentation, and case hygiene.

• Successfully manage multiple complex support cases simultaneously.

• Ensure support processes and procedures are consistently followed.

• Perform effective follow-the-sun handoffs and knowledge transfers.

• Support operational agility by adjusting priorities as business needs evolve.

• Help drive improvements to support workflows, tools, and processes.

Collaboration

• Participate in support swarms and case reviews.

• Seek help and assist teammates with technical challenges and case management.

• Collaborate effectively across Support, Engineering, Product, Customer Success, and Operations teams.

• Drive cross-functional initiatives that improve business outcomes and customer experience.

• Identify opportunities for process improvement and advocate for positive change.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive experience in Technical Support, Cloud Operations, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related technical roles.

• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.

• Experience supporting distributed systems, SaaS platforms, or cloud-native applications.

• Experience working directly with engineering teams during escalations and defect investigations.

• Experience working with enterprise CRM and ticketing systems including Salesforce and Freshdesk.

• Demonstrate enthusiasm to development within the role and the ability to grow in their career.

• Exceptional English verbal and written communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expert-level experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

• Kubernetes and container technologies.

• Infrastructure automation and CI/CD concepts.

• Networking, security, and systems administration experience.

• FinOps, cloud cost optimization, or cloud operations experience.

• Experience supporting Spot Ocean, Elastigroup, or similar cloud infrastructure platforms.

• Relevant industry certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, FinOps).

Success Measures

A successful Technical Support Engineer:

• Consistently delivers high-quality customer outcomes.

• Frequently leads resolution of complex technical issues.

• Demonstrates strong case ownership and documentation practices.

• Serves as a trusted mentor and technical leader.

• Proactively identifies and addresses knowledge gaps.

• Contributes to support process improvements and operational effectiveness.

• Meets or exceeds key support metrics, including customer satisfaction and responsiveness.

• Drives collaboration across teams to improve customer experience and business results.

Referenced Technologies

• AWS CloudWatch

• Amazon EKS

• Amazon ECS

• Azure Portal

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

• Kubernetes

• MySQL