Product Support Engineer

Stellic

$90K — $120K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1-2 years in technical support or related roles at a B2B SaaS company.
  • Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field.
  • Familiarity with debugging tools and basic SQL/querying.
  • Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar languages.
  • Experience in providing clear engineer handoffs with actionable insights.
  • Comfortable using AI tools for assistance but knowledgeable enough to debug manually.
  • Strong written communication skills for effective documentation and customer interaction.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain high standards of queue health, including SLA and customer satisfaction.
  • Own diagnostic processes for specific product areas, including issue reproduction and troubleshooting.
  • Deliver engineer handoffs that require minimal further communication.
  • Identify and resolve recurring issues by collaborating with product teams.
  • Contribute to improving knowledge bases and diagnostic tools for the support team.
  • Work alongside AI systems to enhance issue deflection while maintaining customer satisfaction.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence the future of higher education.
  • Collaborative environment with a mission-driven leadership team.
  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity options.
  • Flexible, outcome-oriented work culture promoting autonomy.
  • Comprehensive health coverage with significant employer contributions.
  • 401(k), commuter benefits, and annual international retreats.
Full Job Description
Product Support Engineering is the layer between our partners and our product - where partner trust gets earned in real time, and where every ticket is both an outcome to deliver and a signal worth acting on. The role isn't to move tickets faster; it's to diagnose deeply, kill recurring issues at the source, and make sure the product gets better because of what the queue teaches us. We're looking for a Product Support Engineer who wants to own that bar - and who thinks like an owner, not a ticket-closer.

ABOUT YOU

You've spent a year or two working close to customers and close to the system - in a support engineering, technical support, or solutions role at a SaaS company. You read logs fluently, open devtools before opening a ticket, and push past "I don't know" until you find the cause. When an issue genuinely needs an engineer, you write the kind of escalation they can act on, quickly; when it shouldn't need one twice, you write the doc, build the macro, or script the fix to make sure it doesn't come back. You take ownership of the outcome, not just the activity, and you're ready to do it on a product that genuinely matters to the people using it.

AS OUR PRODUCT SUPPORT ENGINEER, YOU WILL OWN

About half the week is queue work; the other half is the process and tooling work that makes future queues smaller - better KB content, sharper diagnostic tooling, structural fixes that prevent recurrence. Across both, you'll own:
  • Queue health, with the bar high. You hold the line on SLA, CSAT, and ticket hygiene across every incoming ticket. Your queue data is always clean enough to inform real product decisions.
  • Diagnostic depth across your product areas. You'll own a defined set of product areas end-to-end including reading logs, querying data, reproducing issues, and forming hypotheses that hold up. You resolve the majority of Tier 2 escalations before they reach engineering.
  • Engineering handoffs engineers actually trust. The escalations you write resolve in one round-trip - the engineer has enough context to act without back-and-forth.
  • Killing recurring issues at the source. When an issue shows up twice, you partner with Product and use the right tools, like knowledge content or AI deflection, to make sure it does not show up a third time.
  • The knowledge and tooling layer. You leave KB articles, AI deflection content, support guides, the macro library better than you found it. You also contribute to the diagnostic tools the team builds for the queue.
  • Partnership with the AI tier. First-touch deflection runs through AI. You'll work alongside it, refining its content, training it on what humans solve, and lifting deflection in your areas without dropping CSAT.


TO BE SUCCESSFUL, YOU SHOULD HAVE
  • At least 1 to 2 years in technical support, customer engineering, or solutions engineering at a B2B SaaS company, ideally somewhere with real complexity (data accuracy, integrations, or environments where being wrong has consequences). That's a floor, not a ceiling: if you're further along in your career and the role still excites you, we want to hear from you.
  • A Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related field - You have a working understanding of how software systems are built and behave, even if you don't write production code in this role.
  • Diagnostic comfort across a stack you don't own - logs (Datadog, Sentry, CloudWatch, Posthog or similar), basic SQL or query tooling, browser devtools. You read code well enough to form a hypothesis even if you don't ship it.
  • Scripting comfort to automate the repetitive - Python, Bash, or whatever's at hand. You can write a quick script that saves the team hours, pull data the dashboard doesn't expose, or hit an API when no UI covers what you need. The output isn't production code - it's time back for the team.
  • A bias toward escalations engineers can act on - clean repros, clear hypotheses, documented attempts. Engineers shouldn't have to ask "what did you try?" - your handoff already answers it.
  • AI-fluent, not AI-dependent - you use Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, or whatever helps you work at a higher level and scale your output. But you can explain every line you ship, and you know when to put the AI down and debug by hand.
  • Strong written communication - You write KB articles that actually deflect tickets, draft customer replies that resolve issues, and put together escalations that don't bounce.
  • An ownership mindset - you feel the weight of the outcome and act accordingly. When you see the same issue twice, you start asking why it's reaching the queue at all, and you're as comfortable proposing a doc, a macro, or a product change as you are answering a ticket.


WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING AT STELLIC
  • Shape the future of higher education at a company leading the transformation of student success.
  • Work alongside an ambitious, mission-driven leadership team building something meaningful.
  • Own a piece of the journey with competitive salary, meaningful equity and a culture of excellence, speed and ownership.
  • Thrive in a flexible, outcome-driven culture built on trust and autonomy.
  • Exceptional benefits, including health insurance with Stellic covering 99% of your premium and 75% for dependents.
  • 401(k), commuter benefits, and annual international retreats in incredible locations.


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