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Support Engineer

Plain · San Francisco Bay Area · 2 wk ago
HybridEngineeringFull-time

What you'll do

  • Be the primary owner of the support queue during SF hours, ensuring customers get timely, thoughtful responses, even when the answer isn't immediately clear.
  • Be "customer zero" for the product: Represent the voice of real support teams. What works, what doesn't, and what's missing?
  • Drive issues end-to-end: investigate, debug, coordinate with engineering, and follow through until resolution.
  • Own clean, visible handover between EU and US timezones so nothing drops on the floor.
  • Proactively flag risk early (backlogs building, customer frustration, L2 pressure, product bugs).
  • Help define and evolve how we do support: ownership models, handover norms, escalation standards, documentation, and tooling.
  • Improve our Help Center and self-serve experience to reduce repeat questions and scale quality.
  • Partner closely with Product, Customer Success, and Engineering as a sounding board when scoping and designing features.

This is a great fit if you…

  • Have experience as a Support Engineer in an early-stage or scaling B2B SaaS company.
  • Are technically strong: you can read logs, write SQL, understand APIs, webhooks, and how systems work under the hood.
  • Take initiative by default — you don't wait to be told what to own. You ask questions, you're curious, and you're constantly looking for opportunities to optimize your own work.
  • Communicate clearly and proactively, especially when things are messy or high-pressure.
  • Have strong opinions about support products and practices, and enjoy improving them.
  • Are commercially minded and understand customer context (Tier, lifecycle stage, sentiment, impact).

This won't be the right role if you…

  • Prefere to spend most of your day coding rather than working directly with customers.
  • Need well-defined processes before you can operate confidently.
  • Are uncomfortable making judgment calls and owning outcomes.
  • Are looking for a people-management role right now.
  • Expect the pace, perks, or structure of a large, established company.
  • Aren’t interested in working in person or up for early mornings - this role is based in SF, and we work together in the office at least 3 days a week. We tend to start earlier in the day (7:30/8am or so).

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