
Senior Technical Support Engineer
Chainguard
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $128,000 - $140,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Be the frontline agent: Triage, investigate, manage, and annihilate complex customer issues involving Chainguard Images.
- Escalate wisely: Engage the Engineering team when things get spicy.
- Communicate like a pro: Keep customers (and your SLAs) happy, informed, and impressed.
- Bridge the tech lingo divide: Explain things clearly to both code whisperers and non-tech humans.
- Document like a librarian: Create detailed write-ups of new issues and throw helpful Knowledge Base nuggets into the mix.
- Channel your inner detective: Prioritize your own queue, drive clarity in communication, and proactively guide issues to resolution.
- Speak up smartly: Push bugs, feature requests, and hidden gremlins up to Engineering and GTM teams.
- Learn, teach, repeat: Seek new challenges, share wisdom, and maybe teach someone your favorite GitHub ninja trick.
- Be there when it counts: Participate in an on-call rotation for after-hours, weekend, and holiday support.
Requirements
- You’ve spent 5+ years supporting enterprise customers with a confident, calm approach.
- 3+ years under your belt with Linux, Docker and Kubernetes. You dream in containers.
- You deliver top-tier customer experiences with stellar written and verbal communication.
- You're a cross-functional harmony maker supporting teams across Engineering, Customer Success, and more.
- You're comfortable in the DevOps warzone: CI/CD, Linux, GitHub, Helm Charts, Terraform, Open source and all the good stuff.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP; AWS EKS experience is a plus.
- Extra kudos if you’ve flirted with security frameworks, software supply chain security, or vulnerability scanning.
- Extra kudos if you bring CKA, CKAD, CKS or KCSA certs and aspire to be a future Kubestronaut.
- Startup experience? Even better. You’ve navigated fast lanes before.
- A curious soul who learns faster than a caffeinated squirrel.
- You hold a bachelor’s degree (STEM preferred) or have equivalent battle scars from the real world.
Benefits
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
LinuxDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitHubHelm ChartsTerraformAWSAzureGCP
Soft skills
customer supportcommunicationcross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingprioritizationdocumentationproactive guidanceteachingcalm approachcuriosity
Certifications
CKACKADCKSKCSA