
Support Engineer
Zip
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $110,000 - $140,000 per year
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
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Hard skills
technical troubleshootingroot cause analysisintegration configurationsREST APIsGraphQLwebhooksERP platformsSAMLarchitectural guidancescalability optimization
Soft skills
customer empathywritten communicationverbal communicationprioritizationoperational rigorrelationship buildingproblem-solvingadaptabilitycollaborationinfluencing