Support Engineer Jobs in Anaheim, CA (NOW HIRING)

We are looking to hire a Support Engineer who will work in collaboration with our Business and Engineering Teams to ensure top notch API + Technical Support. This candidate should understand web technology, have experience working with and troubleshooting JSON and REST APIs, be an adaptive person and not afraid of complexity.  They will ensure various Enterprise clients are supported effectively by focusing on

1) prevention of technical issues through building QA tests + enhancing error responses and external documentation to help developers resolve their problems themselves,

2) improving internal processes such as monitoring and alarming to catch critical issues quickly, investigating issues to the root cause, and creating helpful internal troubleshooting documentation and

3) collaborating across client-facing and technical teams to ensure changes to APIs are smooth for both internal and external stakeholders, as well as globally within the wider support team. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about innovative technology, has not only the existing technical skills to be successful but also the acumen to learn even more; you'll never run out of things to learn here. You are comfortable being a mediator between account and technology teams, helping both reach solutions on high-priority technical issues. There is plenty of room for advancement in this role within the department or otherwise within our company, both as an independent contributor or leading a team. 

What You'll Do:

• Serve as a Support Engineer for our Technical Account Management (TAM) team, who are responsible for communication and management of enterprise API clients and third-party partners that use various REST, JSON, GraphQL (GQL) APIs 
• Proactive troubleshooting initiatives: focus on prevention of issues (rather than only being reactive and focused only on resolution) such as API QA testing and validation 
• Executing and manipulating stored procedures and writing queries in SQL 
• Monitor the company's ticketing case system; answer, troubleshoot and resolve various technical issues escalated by the TAM team and Client Services related to our platform and APIs 
• Responsible for owning incidents, including collaborating, and escalating to Engineering, Product, and Business Intelligence 
• Enhance internal processes such as improving issue visibility for API users and internal stakeholders and improve alerting of priority issues 
• Contribute to the company and Support Team's knowledge base 
• Coordinate in-depth training on Support-related tools and processes 
• Identify opportunities for improvement within the business and lead projects to champion solutions addressing those gaps or weaknesses 
• Light on-call/after-hours support

Who You Are:

• Bachelor's Degree from a four-year university or relevant substitute experience
• 4 - 6 years relevant work experience in Technical and/or Application Support with strong knowledge of API monitoring and troubleshooting
• Deep curiosity for understanding how things work, especially as it applies to technology and its underlying framework
• Exceptional troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to prioritize effectively and collaborate cross-functionally in a fast-paced, complex, and growing environment
• Mid-level to advanced experience with databases, SQL, API's - Able to create queries to retrieve records, an understanding of the underlying data structures, an ability to interact with, troubleshoot JSON, REST & GraphQL (GQL) APIs
• Work well in a team, including leading knowledge sharing and training sessions to help junior team members improve
• Experience managing complex datasets, identifying trends within the data, and performing comparisons between multiple data sources
• Experience with Programming languages (HTML, Python, Java, JavaScript) is a plus
• Excels at working independently while aligning, collaborating and contributing towards the global team's success.
• Knowledge of advertising technology industry is a plus
• Multi-lingual a plus 

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The Trade Desk will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Ordinance No. 184652.