
Support Engineer
Plain Concepts
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
Visit company websiteExplore more
Salary
💰 $150,000 - $180,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Be the primary owner of the support queue during SF hours, ensuring customers get timely, thoughtful responses, even when the answer isn't immediately clear.
- Be "customer zero" for the product: Represent the voice of real support teams. What works, what doesn't, and what's missing?
- Drive issues end-to-end: investigate, debug, coordinate with engineering, and follow through until resolution.
- Own clean, visible handover between EU and US timezones so nothing drops on the floor.
- Proactively flag risk early (backlogs building, customer frustration, L2 pressure, product bugs).
- Help define and evolve how we do support: ownership models, handover norms, escalation standards, documentation, and tooling.
- Improve our Help Center and self-serve experience to reduce repeat questions and scale quality.
- Partner closely with Product, Customer Success, and Engineering as a sounding board when scoping and designing features.
Requirements
- Have experience as a Support Engineer in an early-stage or scaling B2B SaaS company.
- Are technically strong: you can read logs, write SQL, understand APIs, webhooks, and how systems work under the hood.
- Take initiative by default — you don't wait to be told what to own. You ask questions, you're curious, and you're constantly looking for opportunities to optimize your own work.
- Communicate clearly and proactively, especially when things are messy or high-pressure.
- Have strong opinions about support products and practices, and enjoy improving them.
- Are commercially minded and understand customer context (Tier, lifecycle stage, sentiment, impact).
- Thrive in ambiguity and love to solve problems - the power of Plain is the ability to extend it. You think creatively and love finding different ways to solve a customer's use case.
Benefits
- Offers Equity 📊 Check your resume score for this job Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply. Check Resume Score
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
SQLAPIswebhooksdebugginglog analysis
Soft Skills
initiativecuriosityclear communicationproblem-solvingcustomer-centric mindset