PingCAP is one world-leading, one-stop, real-time HTAP database solution provider, and our mission is to build a database of the future, made by developers and for developers. Now our products TiDB have been trusted by large-scale industry leaders and adopted by over 2000 companies across different industries.
Our deep open-source community roots (32,000 stars on GitHub), innovative products, and inclusive culture are what draw passionate and dedicated people to our company.
About the role
As a valued member of our Global Support team, your primary responsibility will be to provide remote assistance to customers in resolving TiDB/TiDB Cloud issues. You will play a crucial role in ensuring customer satisfaction by delivering effective and timely support.
Responsibilities
1. Diagnose database issues by collecting relevant logs and monitoring data, determining the root causes of customer problems, and assisting customers in issue resolution.
2. Consult and collaborate with engineers within the team or across teams to address customer issues.
3. Record key issues encountered during work to assist colleagues in enhancing products and improving support experiences.
4. Actively monitor customer satisfaction, identify customer concerns, and manage customer expectations.
Qualifications
1. Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a related field from a nationally accredited institution.
2. 3 years or more of experience in database technical support or related roles.
3. Proficiency in the operational mechanisms and management of relational databases such as MySQL/Oracle; experience with NoSQL, NewSQL, or related technologies is a plus.
4. Familiarity with Linux/Unix operating systems, understanding of common database business system architectures, and strong experience in troubleshooting and handling major faults.
5. Strong ability to learn quickly, excellent problem analysis and resolution skills, and the ability to work in a multi-threaded environment; capable of handling urgent situations proactively.
6. Excellent communication skills, a strong sense of work responsibility, and a collaborative spirit within the team.
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What We Do
PingCAP is a leading enterprise for distributed database, provides open source distributed database products, solutions and consulting, technical support and training certification services. It is committed to providing stable, efficient, safe, reliable, open and compatible new data service platform for global industry users, liberating enterprise productivity and accelerating digital transformation & upgrading.PingCAP's flagship project, TiDB, is an open-source, distributed Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) database that features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability with MySQL compatibility. It is trusted by global innovation leaders for mission-critical applications, such as Databricks, Dailymotion, Streak, Square, and Colopl.
PingCAP has donated two projects to CNCF: TiKV (TiDB’s storage engine) and Chaos Mesh (TiDB’s chaos testing tool). TiKV is a cloud-native distributed Key-Value store and now a CNCF graduated project. Chaos Mesh is a powerful chaos engineering platform for Kubernetes and now a CNCF sandbox project.
