Sr. Strategic Support Engineer - Vault

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About HashiCorp

HashiCorp is a fast-growing startup that solves development, operations, and security challenges in infrastructure so organizations can focus on business-critical tasks. We build products to give organizations a consistent way to manage their move to cloud-based IT infrastructures for running their applications. Our products enable companies large and small to mix and match AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and other clouds as well as on-premises environments, easing their ability to deliver new applications for their business.

About the Role

HashiCorp is looking for an experienced customer facing engineering professional to join its Strategic Support Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a role that has a direct impact on HashiCorp’s fast growing business. You are a fit if you thrive in a fast-paced culture that values essential communication, collaboration, constant learning, and iteration. You are a self-motivated, tactful, detail-oriented person with an insatiable desire to learn new technology and an eye for automation, customer experience, process improvement, and efficient problem solving.

Reporting to the Manager, Strategic Support Engineering, the Senior Support Engineer will be a key member of the Strategic Support Team within the Global Support & Services organization and advocate for customer satisfaction and success. The Senior Support Engineer will troubleshoot complex issues related to Vault and Vault Enterprise and work to find viable solutions while maintaining detailed communication with customers and responsiveness to their needs. The Senior Support Engineer will grow and maintain detailed knowledge and familiarity with Strategic customers’ environments, configurations, and use cases. They will contribute to product growth and development via weekly product meetings. The Senior Support Engineer will attend customer meetings as needed to help identify, debug and resolve customer issues and will serve as a liaison between the customer and HashiCorp engineering. When possible the Senior Support Engineer will update and improve product documentation, guide feature development, and build tools to make the support team as a whole more successful. This position is remote and involves collaborating with a global, remote team. 


In this role you can expect to:

  • Reproduce and debug customer issues by building or using existing test environments and tools.
  • Communicate tactfully with customers: gather info, provide diagnostic and resolution steps, convey process and product guidance
  • Solve incoming technical support requests within SLA, including high-severity urgent cases
  • Continuously increase knowledge and help train the team on 3rd party technologies that integrate with Vault and on new Vault features
  • Proactively learn and document customer environment, configuration and use case details
  • Recommend best practice guidance based on familiarity with customers’ product usage
  • Participate in high-level sync calls with customers as needed
  • Identify and communicate product usage trends, bugs and feature requests at weekly product engineering meetings
  • Collaborate with account managers to schedule, coordinate, and lead customer debugging calls
  • Document and record all activity with customers in accordance to both internal and external security standards
  • Contribute to product documentation, customer knowledge base, and best practices guides
  • Continuously improve process and tools in collaboration with the team
  • Periodic on-call rotation for production-down issues

30 days:

  • Complete HashiCorp company onboarding & training
  • Provision and bootstrap a Vault cluster without assistance.
  • Understanding of Vault/Vault Enterprise and the interaction with other products within the Hashicorp Product Suite.
  • Begin preparation for the Vault Certification Exam.
  • Complete Vault Certification Exam

60 days:

  • Ride along on 1-2 live customer debugging calls
  • Effectively triage and respond to Sev 3 & Sev 4 inquiries independently.
  • Contribute 1 Support Knowledge Base article.
  • Complete 10 Support Tickets with the guidance of more senior team members.
  • Effectively triage customer support tickets and understand the difficulty of tickets being submitted.
  • Begin working Sev 2 tickets towards the end of the first 60 days.

90 days:

  • Respond to Sev 1/production down issues with minimal assistance.
  • Independently find points of error and identify root cause by examining log files.
  • Create ongoing KB articles that will benefit all customers, 1 article per month.
  • Meet performance goals set by management for ticket closure per month, SLA, and CSAT.

You may be a good fit for our team if you have:

  • 5 years of Support Engineering experience (or comparable customer-facing technical role), preferably for mission-critical software
  • DevOps Engineering, Software Engineering, and/or System Administration experience is a huge plus
  • Experience with Vault & other HashiCorp tools is a plus
  • Experience troubleshooting and resolving urgent, high-visibility technical problems
  • Experience communicating clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing
  • Experience working with Enterprise customers and advocating for customer experience
  • Experience with major cloud platforms, distributed systems, microservice architecture, and containers
  • Experience with scripting tool of choice to help automate reproduction environments (for example, Bash, Python)
  • Ability to read complex code for troubleshooting and familiarity with Github
  • Experience with REST APIs and command line tools
  • Well-organized, excellent work ethic, attention to detail, and ability to learn new technologies quickly
  • Excellent problem solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.

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HashiCorp operates in the Cloud industry. The company is located in San Francisco, CA. HashiCorp was founded in 2012. It has 1200 total employees. It offers perks and benefits such as Friends outside of work, Open door policy, Team based strategic planning, Group brainstorming sessions, Open office floor plan and Mandated unconscious bias training. To see all 23 open jobs at HashiCorp, click here.
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