Senior Support Engineer, Japan &amp; APAC
As a Senior Support Engineer, you will provide first-class post-sales technical leadership to our client base. Working directly with customers, Support Engineers are the authority on the CircleCI platform, continuous integration, and deployment practices. Finally, as part of the Customer Engineering organization, you will have the opportunity to work directly with our Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, and Marketing teams to share knowledge and experiences, and will act as the Voice of the Customer to help drive improvements that will ensure our customers’ success with CircleCI.
You will be the main point of contact for technical questions and requests for assistance that our customers register in our support ticketing system. You will work with the rest of the Support team to build out and cultivate our support operations, and help to establish a customer community to improve the experience of our customers. For this job, you will need to have a strong technical capability along with a strong self-starting, dedicated mentality and the ability to maintain empathy for customers. You’re going to be dealing with very technical users and complex issues, but you’re also tasked with creating excitement and loyalty in the customers you interact with.
About Customer Engineering at CircleCI
CircleCI’s Customer Engineering organization’s goal is to make life easier for our customers and leave them with the “wow” experience of building and testing their applications with ease. Customer Engineering works with customers to understand their
technical and business needs and requirements — from onboarding to implementation to scale.&nbsp;
What you’ll do:
<ul>
<li>Work closely with our customers to help them resolve tickets</li>
<li>Be creative in solving customer technical problems and answering customer questions</li>
<li>Build standard methodologies for technical troubleshooting across different technologies, and author Knowledge Articles that contribute to our self-serve support portal</li>
<li>Be the customer's voice and use customer feedback to help Product and Engineering improve the product</li>
<li>Become a champion of the CircleCI solution</li>
<li>Participate in on-call rotation with the global support team</li>
</ul>
What we’re looking for:
<ul>
<li>Exceptional written and oral communication skills in English and Native/fluent Japanese language skills</li>
<li>4+ years of technical product support or engineering</li>
<li>Experience working directly with customers to debug common errors</li>
<li>Ability to tie business problems to technical solutions and understand technology value propositions</li>
<li>Demonstrated capacity to quickly absorb new concepts and technologies</li>
<li>A decent amount of time using and scripting *nix</li>
<li>Familiarity with Git in general and ideally GitHub in particular</li>
<li>You believe that the best way for all to succeed is to honestly discuss product and company abilities and limitations with customers. We don't oversell at CircleCI</li>
<li>Strong ops/infrastructure knowledge, especially networking and security</li>
<li>Great relationship building skills and a good people person</li>
<li>&nbsp;Outstanding written and oral interpersonal skills</li>
</ul>
Additional great skills to have!
<ul>
<li>Experience with build, test, and deployment automation, either as a practitioner or in a customer-facing role</li>
<li>Ability to fix networking issues that may prevent communication between different components</li>
<li>Knowledge of Docker or Linux containers in general</li>
<li>Knowledge of Kubernetes in general</li>
<li>Knowledge of iOS application testing and code signing</li>
<li>Experience using and automating a major IaaS like AWS, GCP, or Azure</li>
<li>Familiarity with deploying and debugging distributed systems</li>
</ul>
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
About CircleCI
CircleCI is the world’s largest continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, and the hub where code moves from idea to delivery. As one of the most-used DevOps tools - processing more than 3 million jobs a day - CircleCI has unique access to data on how the most effective engineering teams work, and the tools to help software companies successfully leverage the power of AI into their commercial applications. Companies like Hinge, HuggingFace, and Samsung use us to improve engineering team productivity, release better products, and get to market faster.
Founded in 2011 and headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a global, remote workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Base10, Greenspring Associates, Eleven Prime, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Baseline Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Owl Rock Capital, Next Equity Partners, Heavybit, and Harrison Metal Capital.
CircleCI is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status
as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.<div class="content-conclusion">
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable&nbsp;accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform&nbsp;essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.&nbsp;Please contact us to request accommodation.
About CircleCI
CircleCI is the world’s largest continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)&nbsp;platform, and the hub where code moves from idea to delivery. As one of the most-used&nbsp;DevOps tools - processing more than 3 million jobs a day - CircleCI has unique access to&nbsp;data on how the most effective engineering teams work, and the tools to help software&nbsp;companies successfully leverage the power of AI into their commercial applications.&nbsp;Companies like Hinge, HuggingFace, and Samsung use us to improve engineering team&nbsp;productivity, release better products, and get to market faster.
 Founded in 2011 and headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a global, remote&nbsp;workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Base10, Greenspring Associates, Eleven Prime,&nbsp;IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Baseline Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Owl Rock Capital, Next Equity Partners, Heavybit, and&nbsp;Harrison Metal Capital.&nbsp;
CircleCI is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender,&nbsp;gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status&nbsp;as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable&nbsp;legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal&nbsp;histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.</div>

**Senior Support Engineer, Japan & APAC**

As a **Senior** **Support Engineer** , you will provide first-class post-sales
technical leadership to our client base. Working directly with customers,
Support Engineers are the authority on the CircleCI platform, continuous
integration, and deployment practices. Finally, as part of the Customer
Engineering organization, you will have the opportunity to work directly with
our Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, and Marketing teams to
share knowledge and experiences, and will act as the Voice of the Customer to
help drive improvements that will ensure our customers’ success with CircleCI.

You will be the main point of contact for technical questions and requests for
assistance that our customers register in our support ticketing system. You
will work with the rest of the Support team to build out and cultivate our
support operations, and help to establish a customer community to improve the
experience of our customers. For this job, you will need to have a strong
technical capability along with a strong self-starting, dedicated mentality
and the ability to maintain empathy for customers. You’re going to be dealing
with very technical users and complex issues, but you’re also tasked with
creating excitement and loyalty in the customers you interact with.

**About Customer Engineering at CircleCI**

CircleCI’s Customer Engineering organization’s goal is to make life easier for
our customers and leave them with the “wow” experience of building and testing
their applications with ease. Customer Engineering works with customers to
understand their

technical and business needs and requirements — from onboarding to
implementation to scale.

**What you’ll do:**

  * Work closely with our customers to help them resolve tickets
  * Be creative in solving customer technical problems and answering customer questions
  * Build standard methodologies for technical troubleshooting across different technologies, and author Knowledge Articles that contribute to our self-serve support portal
  * Be the customer's voice and use customer feedback to help Product and Engineering improve the product
  * Become a champion of the CircleCI solution
  * Participate in on-call rotation with the global support team

**What we’re looking for:**

  * Exceptional written and oral communication skills in English and Native/fluent Japanese language skills
  * 4+ years of technical product support or engineering
  * Experience working directly with customers to debug common errors
  * Ability to tie business problems to technical solutions and understand technology value propositions
  * Demonstrated capacity to quickly absorb new concepts and technologies
  * A decent amount of time using and scripting *nix
  * Familiarity with Git in general and ideally GitHub in particular
  * You believe that the best way for all to succeed is to honestly discuss product and company abilities and limitations with customers. We don't oversell at CircleCI
  * Strong ops/infrastructure knowledge, especially networking and security
  * Great relationship building skills and a good people person
  *  Outstanding written and oral interpersonal skills

**Additional great skills to have!**

  * Experience with build, test, and deployment automation, either as a practitioner or in a customer-facing role
  * Ability to fix networking issues that may prevent communication between different components
  * Knowledge of Docker or Linux containers in general
  * Knowledge of Kubernetes in general
  * Knowledge of iOS application testing and code signing
  * Experience using and automating a major IaaS like AWS, GCP, or Azure
  * Familiarity with deploying and debugging distributed systems

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable
accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to
perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges
of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

**About CircleCI**

CircleCI is the world’s largest continuous integration/continuous delivery
(CI/CD) platform, and the hub where code moves from idea to delivery. As one
of the most-used DevOps tools - processing more than 3 million jobs a day -
CircleCI has unique access to data on how the most effective engineering teams
work, and the tools to help software companies successfully leverage the power
of AI into their commercial applications. Companies like Hinge, HuggingFace,
and Samsung use us to improve engineering team productivity, release better
products, and get to market faster.

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a global,
remote workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Base10, Greenspring
Associates, Eleven Prime, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners,
Baseline Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Owl Rock
Capital, Next Equity Partners, Heavybit, and Harrison Metal Capital.

CircleCI is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not
discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual
orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status,
sexual stereotypes, age, status

as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other
applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified
applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state
and local law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable
accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to
perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges
of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

**About CircleCI**

CircleCI is the world’s largest continuous integration/continuous delivery
(CI/CD) platform, and the hub where code moves from idea to delivery. As one
of the most-used DevOps tools - processing more than 3 million jobs a day -
CircleCI has unique access to data on how the most effective engineering teams
work, and the tools to help software companies successfully leverage the power
of AI into their commercial applications. Companies like Hinge, HuggingFace,
and Samsung use us to improve engineering team productivity, release better
products, and get to market faster.

  
Founded in 2011 and headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a global,
remote workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Base10, Greenspring
Associates, Eleven Prime, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners,
Baseline Ventures, Threshold  
Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Owl Rock Capital, Next Equity Partners,
Heavybit, and Harrison Metal Capital.

CircleCI is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not
discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual
orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status,
sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an
individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected
characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal
histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

