Netflix - Los Gatos, CA

posted 4 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Los Gatos, CA
Broadcasting and Content Providers

About the position

The Technical Support Engineer (L5) position within the Engineering Support Organization is designed to empower the Productivity Engineering team to scale customer support effectively. This role serves as the frontline resource for the engineering workforce, focusing on handling, troubleshooting, and resolving customer requests and issues. The team is dedicated to improving work methods, advocating for customers, enhancing support tools, expanding platform product offerings, and advancing documentation and developer education. Our mission is to provide outstanding support to Netflix's developer community. We pride ourselves on our ability to advocate for our customers by diligently following through on issues and resolving them promptly. In cases where immediate resolution is not possible, we ensure clear communication about the status of the issue and provide visibility into the cause of any delays. We offer insights and feedback, championing customer sentiment regarding the tools and services we support. This valuable information is shared with our partners across Productivity Engineering, and we collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to track ongoing issues, maintain visibility, and communicate customer needs to ensure that improvements are prioritized. As a Technical Support Engineer, you will be responsible for monitoring and handling customer requests, troubleshooting and solving issues, automating support needs, developing runbooks, improving and maintaining support tools, and continuously seeking ways to enhance the engineering support experience. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in customer-facing engineering support roles, a strong understanding of infrastructure, internal tooling, platforms, and cloud computing, and a passion for productivity infrastructure and tooling. You will need to excel at understanding and solving complex and ambiguous issues while always seeking improvement. In this role, you will be expected to understand our complex offerings on a deep technical level, be hands-on in the development of our support automation tooling, and recommend product and operational improvements based on customer interactions. Our culture is unique, and we encourage you to do your best work and grow within the organization. We are looking for someone who is not only technically proficient but also passionate about customer service and automation, ensuring that our developer community receives the best support possible.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor and handle customer requests and issues.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve technical problems for customers.
  • Automate support needs and develop runbooks.
  • Improve and maintain support tools and processes.
  • Understand and communicate product offerings to customers.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance usability and reduce product friction.
  • Provide insights and feedback to improve customer experience and support tools.
  • Document processes and create comprehensive self-service knowledge bases.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 3 years of professional support engineering experience.
  • Strong understanding and practical knowledge of version control tools, particularly GitHub.
  • In-depth knowledge of Gradle for managing project builds and dependencies.
  • Strong foundation in Java and understanding of the Spring Boot framework.
  • Experience in developing tools and scripts for process improvement through automation.
  • Solid understanding of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
  • Skilled in providing superior customer support across complex organizations.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a focus on documentation.
  • Strong collaboration skills and experience working with cross-functional teams.
  • Passionate about technical documentation and tutorials.

Nice-to-haves

  • Conversant with GRPC and handling service-to-service IPC calls.
  • Exposure to Linux and Docker, particularly with Debian/Artifacts.
  • Experience building dashboards for data-driven decision-making.
  • Experience in supporting infrastructure automation and using ticketing systems like Zendesk.
  • Familiarity with observability tooling and best practices.

Benefits

  • Health Plans
  • Mental Health support
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
  • Stock Option Program
  • Disability Programs
  • Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Family-forming benefits
  • Life and Serious Injury Benefits
  • Paid leave of absence programs
  • 35 days annually for paid time off for full-time hourly employees
  • Flexible time off for full-time salaried employees
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