Zip

Support Engineer

Zip

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $110,000 - $140,000 per year

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Act as the primary technical point of contact for assigned enterprise customers, owning complex technical engagements end-to-end.
  • Develop deep understanding of customer environments, workflows, integration dependencies, and success criteria.
  • Provide proactive recommendations, best practices, and architectural guidance to optimize reliability, scalability, and product adoption.
  • Build strong, trusted relationships with customer engineering, operations, procurement, and IT stakeholders.
  • Serve as the senior technical resource for your assigned customers, unblocking internal teams and customers through advanced troubleshooting.
  • Triage, validate, and reproduce issues; partner with Engineering to drive resolution with full context and prioritization signals.
  • Lead investigations across integrations, identity/SAML, workflow configurations, and backend systems with disciplined root cause analysis.
  • Provide structured post-incident guidance and prevention strategies.
  • Establish predictable engagement rhythms with your customers: operational reviews, health checks, roadmap alignment, and integration assessments.
  • Identify opportunities to improve reliability through process changes, configuration enhancements, and knowledge-sharing.
  • Contribute to scalable frameworks that strengthen how Zip delivers designated support at enterprise scale.
  • Represent your customers internally, ensuring their needs are understood and prioritized appropriately.
  • Partner with Product to influence roadmap through insights gained from recurring themes, usage patterns, and system behaviors.
  • Support Sales, CSM, Onboarding, and TAM teams as a senior technical expert for assigned customers.
  • Use internal tools, logs, and observability platforms (e.g., Datadog) to analyze configurations, trace failures, and understand system behavior.
  • Validate integration flows using REST/GraphQL payloads, webhooks, APIs, and ERP/identity platforms.
  • Identify systemic trends to reduce recurrence and improve overall platform resilience.

Requirements

  • 5–6 years in a technical, customer-facing role, ideally with enterprise SaaS experience.
  • 1+ years serving as a Designated Support Engineer, Technical Account Manager, or similar named-account technical role.
  • Proven success supporting enterprise-scale environments with complex integrations.
  • Experience partnering directly with Engineering teams to influence prioritization and outcomes.
  • Demonstrated ability to own high-pressure situations and drive issues to completion.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication with the ability to simplify complex concepts.
  • Strong customer empathy paired with disciplined prioritization and operational rigor.
  • Fast learner with the ability to quickly master sophisticated architectures and workflows.
Benefits
  • Start-up equity
  • Full health, vision & dental coverage
  • Catered lunches & dinners for SF employees
  • Commuter benefit
  • Team building events & happy hours
  • Flexible PTO
  • Apple equipment + home office budget
  • 401k plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
technical troubleshootingroot cause analysisintegration configurationsREST APIsGraphQLwebhooksERP platformsSAMLarchitectural guidancescalability optimization
Soft Skills
customer empathywritten communicationverbal communicationprioritizationoperational rigorrelationship buildingproblem-solvingadaptabilitycollaborationinfluencing