Description:
We are looking for a Technical Support Engineer - Databases who is interested in solving complex technical problems, working directly with customers, Mysql, Postgresql, Python programming, and properly structured cloud infrastructure. If you want to be a part of our Production Engineering team and contribute to a very well funded scale-up company, we want to hear from you!
Technical Support Engineers at Aiven love interacting directly with customers and are interested in solving technical problems. From triaging database performance degradation, researching logs, to helping customers migrate their data to the Aiven platform, we provide an expert level of care and support to customers.
Our customers are primarily Enterprise developers with a good understanding of technology, and we are tightly integrated with Product Development, Ops, and SRE teams. Depending on your interests, you can also participate in new feature development (we love Python, scripting), as well as improve our automation tooling. In Support, we love building technology to automate our repetitive tasks.
You will fit well as a Technical Support Engineer if you are curious, not afraid of asking questions, patient, friendly, respectful and practice empathy in all your interactions with customers and team members.
What You'll Do:
- Work closely with customers to provide comprehensive technical troubleshooting and recommend suitable workarounds and best practices
- Coordinate efforts and offer root-cause analysis on complicated technical issues (bugs, performance issues, backup & recovery, security)
- Dedicate time per week for projects, learning and personal improvement
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to meet service levels, support quality, and user happiness goals
- Ensure all customer cases are responded to within the SLAs and in a professional manner
- Research, reproduce and report product malfunctions
- Advocate on the customer's behalf and provide feedback to Aiven sales and product teams
- Identify and document feature requests while working cases
- Document solutions, playbooks, and standards for customers as well as for internal use
- Support and help build a team where diversity, inclusion, teamwork and openness inspire other team members
What We're Looking For:
Don’t worry if your experience doesn’t line up perfectly – we still encourage you to apply! We believe in investing in our crabs’ professional growth.
Must-have:
- 5+ years of significant experience supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL in a public cloud environment
- Able to identify and fix a problematic query
- Experience in configuring databases based on hardware specifications from public clouds
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL or MySQL third-party tools and high-availability
- Previous experience working and troubleshooting Linux environments (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc)
- Able to perform database backups using basic linux tooling
- Know how to setup a monitoring solution and use it to observe database performance
- Experience mentoring junior and intermediate support engineers during the triage process
- Ability to create and put in practice Support engineering principles and processes
- Able to work well under pressure and come up with solutions
- Strong English communication skills (speaking, written, and verbal).Technical Support Engineers at Aiven love interacting directly with customers and are interested in solving technical problems. From triaging database performance degradation, researching logs, to helping customers migrate their data to the Aiven platform, we provide an expert level of care and support to customers.
Our customers are primarily Enterprise developers with a good understanding of technology, and we are tightly integrated with Product Development, Ops, and SRE teams. Depending on your interests, you can also participate in new feature development (we love Python, scripting), as well as improve our automation tooling. In Support, we love building technology to automate our repetitive tasks.
You will fit well as a Technical Support Engineer if you are curious, not afraid of asking questions, patient, friendly, respectful and practice empathy in all your interactions with customers and team members.
What You'll Do:
- Work closely with customers to provide comprehensive technical troubleshooting and recommend suitable workarounds and best practices
- Coordinate efforts and offer root-cause analysis on complicated technical issues (bugs, performance issues, backup & recovery, security)
- Dedicate time per week for projects, learning and personal improvement
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to meet service levels, support quality, and user happiness goals
- Ensure all customer cases are responded to within the SLAs and in a professional manner
- Research, reproduce and report product malfunctions
- Advocate on the customer's behalf and provide feedback to Aiven sales and product teams
- Identify and document feature requests while working cases
- Document solutions, playbooks, and standards for customers as well as for internal use
- Support and help build a team where diversity, inclusion, teamwork and openness inspire other team members
- What We're Looking For:
Don’t worry if your experience doesn’t line up perfectly – we still encourage you to apply! We believe in investing in our crabs’ professional growth.
Must-have:
- 5+ years of significant experience supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL in a public cloud environment
- Able to identify and fix a problematic query
- Experience in configuring databases based on hardware specifications from public clouds
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL or MySQL third-party tools and high-availability
- Previous experience working and troubleshooting Linux environments (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc)
- Able to perform database backups using basic linux tooling
- Know how to setup a monitoring solution and use it to observe database performance
- Experience mentoring junior and intermediate support engineers during the triage process
- Ability to create and put in practice Support engineering principles and processes
- Able to work well under pressure and come up with solutions
- Strong English communication skills (speaking, written, and verbal).