
Support Engineer, Java
Smarsh
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Atlanta • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $155,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Diagnose, reproduce, and analyze highly technical product issues reported from the field across both the federal enclave and AWS production environments.
- Lead root cause investigations, document findings, and partner with engineering teams to implement corrective actions.
- Monitor and analyze production performance indicators, logs, telemetry, and alerts from multiple environments.
- Provide technical summaries and incident reports to engineering leadership and escalation managers.
- Work closely with development teams to understand new features, architectural changes, and potential failure points.
- Partner with QA to validate fixes, verify edge-case scenarios, and enhance test coverage around recurring incidents.
- Provide feedback based on real-world usage and cross environment incident patterns to reduce regressions.
- Build and maintain debugging tools, scripts, dashboards, and test harnesses that improve troubleshooting in both secure and cloud environments.
- Identify recurring issues and propose enhancements to observability, stability, and supportability.
- Improve internal processes for incident handling, cross-team communication, and reporting.
- Serve as the technical escalation point for Support teams, delivering deep-dive explanations and guidance.
- Translate complex technical findings into clear, actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Participate in on-call rotations as needed.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in technical support, DevOps, SRE, QA, or an R&D-adjacent engineering role.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems, APIs, microservices, or cloud environments.
- Hands on experience with logs, debugging tools, and monitoring platforms (e.g., Kibana, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).
- Solid scripting/coding ability (Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar).
- Excellent communication skills; able to articulate complex problems clearly.
- Ability to work across secure and cloud environments, including adapting workflows for federal enclave constraints
- **Nice to have**
- Experience working in or supporting federal enclave / restricted-access environments.
- Experience supporting a FedRAMP certified product in production.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and build/test automation.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Background in incident management, postmortems, or SRE best practices.
- Understanding of networking, databases, and API debugging tools (Postman, Fiddler, etc.).
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
troubleshootingscriptingPythonBashPowerShellCI/CDincident managementAPI debuggingmonitoringobservability
Soft Skills
communicationproblem-solvingcollaborationanalytical thinkingtechnical writing
Certifications
FedRAMP certification