Smarsh

Support Engineer, Java

Smarsh

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: AtlantaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $155,000 per year

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