Principal Support Engineer – Customer Reliability & Escalations Engineering

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5 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Expert/Leader
Cloud • Information Technology • Consulting
The Role
The Principal Support Engineer resolves complex customer issues through technical troubleshooting, vendor escalations, and collaboration with engineering and product teams to improve customer experience.
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Job Description: 

Let's Shape Tomorrow by Solving What Matters Most

At Ingram Micro, we are redefining the technology ecosystem that powers the world. As a global technology company with the reach, relationships, and digital platforms to help businesses realize the promise of technology, we create opportunities for our partners and customers to grow, innovate, and succeed. Together, we're shaping tomorrow by solving complex challenges and building the future of technology distribution and platform services

About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Support Engineer to serve as a senior technical authority and escalation leader for our most critical customer-impacting issues across our platform ecosystem. This is not a traditional support role. We are looking for a highly experienced technical expert who can lead critical customer escalations, drive root cause analysis across multiple technology layers, partner directly with Engineering and Product leadership, and communicate confidently with senior stakeholders up to Director and VP level.

The successful candidate will combine deep technical troubleshooting skills with strong incident leadership, operational excellence, and customer advocacy. They will be expected to own high-impact escalations from initial triage through permanent resolution while influencing platform reliability and customer experience at a strategic level.

What You'll Do
  • Own and lead resolution of high-priority Sev1 and Sev2 incidents impacting strategic customers.
  • Drive end-to-end troubleshooting across applications, integrations, cloud infrastructure, databases, and distributed systems.
  • Lead cross-functional incident response and technical war rooms involving Engineering, Product, Operations, Security, and external partners.
  • Perform deep root cause analysis using logs, metrics, traces, database analysis, and application diagnostics.
  • Partner with Engineering teams to ensure permanent corrective actions are implemented, validated, and communicated.
  • Identify recurring issues and drive improvements in reliability, observability, automation, and operational efficiency.
  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor during executive-level customer escalations and critical business events.
  • Mentor engineers, influence technical priorities, and promote best practices in incident management and problem resolution.
What You'll Bring
  • 15+ years of experience in Technical Support Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, Application Support, or Production Support environments.
  • Proven success owning and leading enterprise-critical Sev1 and Sev2 incidents through resolution.
  • Experience supporting large-scale SaaS, cloud-based, or enterprise software platforms in customer-facing environments.
  • Strong expertise troubleshooting REST APIs, integrations, authentication services, distributed systems, cloud platforms, databases, and microservices architectures.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure and/or GCP, Kubernetes, containers, Linux, and modern observability tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, New Relic, AppDynamics, or Elastic.
  • Demonstrated ability to conduct complex root cause investigations across multiple technical domains and stakeholder groups.
  • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with engineers, architects, business leaders, Directors, and Vice Presidents.
  • Preferred experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, SRE, CI/CD environments, scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell), and large-scale cloud, fintech, payments, or enterprise technology organizations.
Why Ingram Micro?

At Ingram Micro, you'll have the opportunity to work on complex technical challenges at global scale while helping shape the future of one of the world's most influential technology ecosystems. You'll be part of a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative environment where your expertise is valued, your ideas are heard, and your career growth is actively supported.

Whether you're driving critical customer outcomes, influencing platform reliability, or partnering with talented teams around the world, you'll have the resources, autonomy, and opportunities to make a meaningful impact. If you're ready to solve challenging problems, lead through complexity, and help shape tomorrow, we'd love to hear from you.

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Skills Required

  • 10+ years in Technical Support Engineering, Escalations, SRE, or related roles
  • Expertise with Datadog (log search, traces, monitors, dashboards)
  • Strong REST API troubleshooting using Postman, cURL
  • Experience diagnosing distributed systems, integrations, and SaaS platform behavior
  • Proven ability to interface with strategic enterprise customers
  • Hands-on experience with vendor escalation processes and SLA governance
  • Strong working knowledge of MTTR, incident management, and technical support KPIs
  • Familiarity with Zendesk or similar ticketing platforms

Ingram Micro Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ingram Micro and has not been reviewed or approved by Ingram Micro.

  • Strong & Reliable Incentives Feedback suggests bonus eligibility is common and commission structures can lift total earnings in sales roles. Pay is described as solid and reliably on time in many contexts.
  • Healthcare Strength Feedback suggests the health offering is comprehensive, with multiple medical options including a copay-only plan and an HSA plan with employer funding. Wellness programs, pharmacy support, and an EAP reinforce the package.
  • Retirement Support Feedback suggests retirement support includes a 401(k) with company match and automatic savings features. This provides a structured foundation for long-term savings.

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The Company
HQ: Irvine, CA
27,182 Employees
Year Founded: 1979

What We Do

Ingram Micro helps businesses Realize the Promise of Technology™. It delivers a full spectrum of global technology and supply chain services to businesses around the world. Deep expertise in technology solutions, mobility, cloud, and supply chain solutions enables its business partners to operate efficiently and successfully in the markets they serve. Unrivaled agility, deep market insights and the trust and dependability that come from decades of proven relationships, set Ingram Micro apart and ahead.

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