Customer Support Engineer

Customer Support Engineer

Boston, Massachusetts

About Us

Sauce Labs is the world's largest full-lifecycle, test automation platform, and the company behind Selenium. Trusted by 80% of the world's top ten largest financial institutions and over 300,000 enterprise users, Sauce Labs provides the only AI platform capable of turning business intent into autonomous testing and quality assurance. With a proprietary dataset of 8.7 billion test runs, Sauce Labs empowers the Fortune 2000 to bridge the gap between AI-driven code generation and enterprise-grade software quality.

The Role

Our support engineers field questions and problems that arise. The issues that come to us are often complex and challenging to solve. Some of our engineers have Computer Science degrees, while others have gained their experience in boot camps and building apps on their own.

We are looking for an experienced Customer Support Engineer that can work with our Enterprise-level customers. It requires experience in the world of development, an interest in solving technical problems, and a strong drive to learn. In this role, you will be working with some of our most important customers, which will require great analytic skills, patience, and the ability to work under pressure. Mostly we work in a support ticketing system, but sometimes we do online meetings with customers. We value people who are responsible, good team players, and able to express themselves clearly in writing. For the right kind of person, it's a rewarding and fun job.

Responsibilities

• Help customers solve technical problems
• Answer questions about the product's capabilities
• Reproduce customer issues, isolate issues to their simplest reproducible case and report bugs to our developers
• Manage queue of support tickets and provide regular updates to open tickets
• Respond quickly (but personally) to customers, primarily through support tickets with occasional online meetings
• Develop customer-facing documentation
• Develop code samples demonstrating testing in the Sauce cloud

Required Skills

• At least 6 months experience as a developer or supporting developers
• At least 1-2 years experience as a support engineer
• Programming experience with at least one of the following languages: Javascript, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, C#
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript (expect a take-home test as part of the interview process)
• Good written communication skills (expect to write a short essay for us)
• An intrinsic desire to help customers (and the patience to do so)
• A willingness to act as a detective, an experimenter, an interpreter, and a team player

Additional Skills

• Knowledge of Selenium and/or Appium
• CI/CD software (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo)
• Test automation frameworks (e.g. JUnit, TestNG, Protractor, Cucumber, Capybara, Jasmine, Mocha, Karma, Cypress)
• Unix command line and/or Unix system administration
• Troubleshooting networking issues, proxies, firewalls
• Android emulators / iOS simulators
• Android/iOS operating systems/app development

We are a hybrid workplace that recognizes the importance of flexibility while valuing in-person collaboration and relationship building. As a result, Saucers located near an office location must be able and willing to come into the office. Those hired remotely must be able and willing to travel to an office as required by the specific role.

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Security responsibilities at Sauce

At Sauce, we will commit to supporting the health and safety of employees and properties, partnering with internal stakeholders to learn and act on ever-evolving security protocols and procedures. You'll be expected to fully comply with all policies and procedures related to security at the department and org wide level and exercise a'security first' approach to how we design, build & run our products and services.

We are excited to share the base salary for this position exclusive of fringe benefits, potential bonuses or stock-based compensation. Your base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience, along with its relationship to the base salaries of current team members at Sauce Labs that are similarly situated. Benefits and Perks that we offer include health coverage (medical, dental, and vision) along with disability and life insurance. In addition, Sauce Labs offers parental leave benefits, flexible time off, professional development, and a 401(k) retirement plan with match. To see more about benefits and perks at Sauce Labs, please check out our careers page at saucelabs.com/company/careers.

US Compensation Range

$80,000 - $93,000 USD