Job Summary:

The Senior Engineering Support Specialist is a technical expert responsible for triaging and resolving complex issues across internal systems and applications. This role works closely with engineering, product, and support teams to investigate problems, improve monitoring and tooling, and enhance support processes. The ideal candidate brings strong troubleshooting skills, system knowledge, and cross-functional collaboration experience to help drive reliability, efficiency, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

The Senior Engineering Support Specialist is a highly skilled and hands-on technical expert responsible for ensuring the stability, usability, and continuous improvement of the organization’s proprietary systems and applications. This role serves as a central point of contact for escalated technical issues and plays a key role in bridging the gap between customer-facing teams, engineering, and product management. The individual in this position leads the triage and investigation of complex problems using a variety of tools, including API clients, browser developer tools, and system logs, to replicate and isolate issues. This role is expected to manage incoming support requests, assess severity and impact, and take ownership of incidents through resolution or appropriate escalation.

In addition to technical investigation, the Senior Engineering Support Specialist is deeply involved in defining and refining internal support processes. This position is responsible for developing standardized workflows for issue intake, tracking, prioritization, and resolution. This includes leading backlog reviews, organizing daily standups for issue triage, and ensuring that support activities are visible, measurable, and aligned across all stakeholders. This role’s deep familiarity with internal systems allows them to identify recurring patterns in technical issues and proactively collaborate with engineering teams to address root causes. This often results in the creation and maintenance of a prioritized backlog of product and monitoring improvements aimed at reducing incident frequency and severity.

The role also includes a strong focus on systems thinking and process improvement. The Senior Engineering Support Specialist is expected to continuously evaluate and enhance existing documentation, playbooks, and troubleshooting guides, while also contributing to the development of internal tools that improve system observability and diagnostic capabilities. This position works closely with engineering to enhance alerting, monitoring, and debugging processes, helping to identify and address gaps in system performance before issues escalate. Through frequent collaboration with product teams, this role helps translate technical findings into actionable feedback that informs future feature development and system design improvements.

A critical component of this role is clear and effective communication. The Senior Engineering Support Specialist must ensure that all stakeholders technical and non-technical are consistently informed of issue status, timelines, risks, and resolutions. This position plays a key role in building trust and accountability across teams by delivering timely updates, writing detailed documentation, and participating in incident retrospectives to ensure that lessons are applied and knowledge is shared.

Success in this role is defined not only by the ability to resolve issues efficiently, but also by the ability to build sustainable systems and processes that scale with the organization. The ideal candidate is a strong problem solver, a collaborative partner, and a strategic thinker who takes ownership of challenges and drives long-term improvements in the technical support function.

Performance Outcomes

Technical Troubleshooting and Incident Management

• Triage and prioritize incoming technical issues based on severity and business impact.
• Replicate, diagnose, and isolate problems using tools such as API clients (e.g., Postman), browser developer tools, and system logs.
• Provide clear documentation of findings before escalating issues to engineering teams.
• Own the end-to-end resolution process for escalated issues, ensuring accuracy and consistency in follow-through.
• Maintain visibility into issue status and provide timely updates to stakeholders.

System Expertise and Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Develop deep knowledge of internal products, platforms, and systems to support informed troubleshooting.
• Act as the technical liaison between customer-facing teams, product managers, and engineers.
• Participate in daily standups, triage meetings, and backlog reviews to ensure alignment across teams.
• Translate technical concepts and issues into clear, a