About Cyera
Come join the company building the security operating model for the age of AI. AI has changed how data is used — and security must change with it. Cyera's mission is to empower businesses to accelerate AI Adoption by defining a holistic approach to securing AI - from data to access to model. Instead of perimeter controls and static policies, Cyera provides a unified control plane that understands relationships between data, access, and behaviors across humans, systems, and AI. Backed by the world’s leading investors and working with a large and growing list of Fortune 1000 companies, we are looking for world-class talent to join us as we usher in the new era of data and AI security.
About the Role
The Senior Technical Support Engineer provides product-focused technical resolution for issues that require deep investigation. This role owns complex troubleshooting within defined product domains, reproduces issues, validates workarounds, improves escalation quality, and helps reduce repeat issues through documentation and product feedback.
What You'll Do
- Master complex technical challenges: Deep-dive into modern enterprise architectures across AI security, data discovery, classification, DLP workflows, and access analysis to solve high-stakes technical issues.
- Drive complete technical ownership: Take full command of Support Tickets from initial discovery to resolution, acting as the primary technical authority and trusted advisor for our customers.
- Engineer automation and internal tools: Write scripts and build custom diagnostic utilities to eliminate manual troubleshooting steps, streamline investigations, and scale team performance.
- Drive product impact and cross-functional synergy: Partner with Product, Engineering, DevOps, and OCTO teams to feed real-world operational insights into the roadmap, deliver high-fidelity root cause analyses, and ensure efficient resolution of systemic platform issues.
- Elevate documentation and knowledge standards: Scale institutional capability by architecting reusable runbooks and technical guides, while maintaining rigorous case management standards to ensure records remain accurate, actionable, and auditable.
- Pioneer AI-driven support: Integrate modern AI tools and agents directly into daily troubleshooting workflows, refining custom prompts to continually accelerate case resolution and elevate support efficiency.
- Champion customer success: Serve as a high-impact advocate for clients, managing relationships and representing the company with confidence when communicating with technical teams and executive stakeholders.
- Mentor and elevate the team: Actively mentor Tier-1 engineers on technical troubleshooting, ticket hygiene, and escalation protocols to build a high-performance support culture.
Who You Are
Must Have
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related technical field (or Associate degree with equivalent practical experience).
- Experience: 5+ years in technical support, support engineering, escalation support, or customer-facing technical roles within SaaS or cybersecurity.
- Scripting & Automation: Hands-on experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell
- Domain Knowledge: Direct experience in data security or cloud domains, such as DSPM, IAM, SIEM, CASB, CNAPP, CSPM, data privacy, or DLP.
- Cloud & Security Infrastructure: Hands-on experience supporting enterprise cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and identity/authentication protocols (SSO, SAML, OAuth, SCIM, RBAC).
- Technical Troubleshooting: Strong ability to analyze logs, inspect APIs and web services, work with SQL, and write root-cause analysis (RCA) summaries and runbooks.
- Tooling: Direct experience managing tickets and escalations in enterprise platforms like Zendesk, ServiceNow, Jira, or Salesforce.
- Execution & Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills to translate complex technical findings for both non-technical customers and R&D engineers.
- Adaptability: Demonstrated ability to work autonomously in ambiguous scenarios and prioritize high-volume workloads based on SLAs, urgency, and customer impact.
- Availability: Willingness to participate in a scheduled on-call rotation, including evenings, weekends, or holidays as business needs require.
Skills Required
- Associate degree or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years technical support, support engineering, escalation support, SaaS support, or cybersecurity support experience
- Strong troubleshooting skills: investigate, reproduce, isolate root cause, document findings, drive outcomes
- Experience supporting enterprise cloud, SaaS, data security, cybersecurity, data governance, or infrastructure platforms
- Hands-on experience with ticketing and escalation tools (Zendesk, Jira, Salesforce, Confluence, Slack, Teams)
- Working knowledge of SQL, APIs, logs, scripting concepts, web services, authentication, permissions, and cloud-based troubleshooting
- Familiarity with data discovery, classification, permissions, DLP workflows, AI security, access analysis, connectors, and remediation workflows
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to prioritize by severity, impact, complexity, SLA risk, and business urgency
- Ability to work autonomously in ambiguous situations
- Willingness to participate in evening, weekend, holiday, or on-call coverage
- Experience in cybersecurity domains (DSPM, DLP, IAM, SIEM, CASB, CNAPP, CSPM, vulnerability management, data privacy)
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, cloud networking, IAM, databases, storage systems, SaaS integrations, enterprise identity providers
- Experience with SSO, SAML, OAuth, SCIM, RBAC, service accounts, and permissions troubleshooting
- Experience writing RCA summaries, defect reports, knowledge articles, troubleshooting runbooks, or escalation templates
- Experience mentoring junior support engineers or improving technical support workflows
Cyera Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cyera and has not been reviewed or approved by Cyera.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across roles, with posted salary bands and strong base/OTE signals in key functions. Visible ranges and attractive totals in senior engineering and sales reinforce a compelling cash foundation.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity via RSUs/options is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards with notable upside potential. An employee tender offer program enables liquidity on vested shares, improving practical access to equity value.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Perks span meal stipends, stocked kitchens, commuting support, wellness programs, and remote office reimbursements. Additional supports like learning stipends and flexible workspace memberships add everyday utility.
Cyera Insights
What We Do
Our platform gives organizations a complete view of where their data lives, how it’s used, and how to keep it safe, so they can reduce risk and unlock the full value of their data, wherever it is. Backed by more than $1.7 billion in funding from top-tier investors including Accel, Blackstone, Coatue, Cyberstarts, Georgian, Lightspeed, and Sequoia, Cyera’s unified data security platform helps businesses discover, secure, and leverage their most valuable asset - data - and eliminate blind spots, cut alert noise, and protect sensitive information across the cloud, SaaS, databases, AI ecosystems, and on-premise environments.
Why Work With Us
Cyera's culture focuses on growth - for our employees, for our customers, and for our business. Our team is a collaborative, empowering group of innovators looking to make a lasting impact. We offer flexible work options, an unlimited vacation policy, and are dedicated to making our team successful.
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