Technical Support Engineer

Metronome

$137K — $205K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years in a B2B customer-facing technical support or engineering role
  • Experience collaborating with engineering teams and providing technical feedback
  • Ability to debug and triage customer issues effectively
  • Proficient in communicating product technicalities to customers
  • Experience in scripting or creating internal tools using APIs, with SQL knowledge
  • Strong written and verbal skills to convey complex concepts simply
  • Customer-focused mindset with problem-solving abilities

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical guidance to customers' developers for API integration and usage
  • Troubleshoot and diagnose customer issues, escalating when necessary
  • Develop tools to automate unavailable customer workflows
  • Design a knowledge base to assist customers with product usage
  • Collaborate with engineers to convey customer feedback and drive product improvements
  • Use observability tools to scope and address customer-facing issues
  • Engage with customers through direct communication channels like Slack

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Market-defined equity options
  • Sales incentive pay for eligible roles
  • Flexible work environment
  • Supportive company culture focused on inclusivity
  • Annual pay audits to ensure fair compensation based on performance and market value
Full Job Description
About the Role

As a member of our technical support engineering team, you will be on the front lines providing world-class customer service. As part of our engineering organization, you will become an expert on our product and partner closely with Metronome's engineers, customer success, solutions architecture, and growth teams, as well as our customers' developers.

Your primary responsibilities will include handling customer escalations through our ticketing system, using internal observability tools to diagnose and scope customer-facing issues, collaborating directly with customers via Slack and other channels, and developing internal tools and documentation to improve the support experience. Since we view every support escalation as an opportunity to learn, both as individuals and as a company, you will play a critical role in providing feedback to our product team on common challenges and influencing our product roadmap.
What You'll Do
  • Provide technical guidance to customers' developers on best practices for integrating with our APIs and utilizing our functionality.
  • Troubleshoot any issues that arise from customers and diagnose any blockers. Escalate issues with customer context to the engineering team.
  • Develop internal tools to automate customer workflows that are currently unavailable in our product. Provide feedback on recurring patterns and advocate for addressing feature gaps in the product.
  • Design and assist in implementing a comprehensive knowledge base to assist customers with using our product.
Impact You'll Have
  • Through your interactions with individual customers, you will help improve our product for everyone.
  • Your work will play a crucial role in ensuring our customers' success and the continued effectiveness of their integration with Metronome.
  • The Metronome team is more well-rounded because you bring your unique personality to work and help create an inclusive fun environment focused on helping our customers get the most value out of Metronome.
Qualifications
  • 2+ years of work experience in a B2B customer-facing technical support organization or in engineering
  • Experience working closely with engineering teams and providing technical feedback on customer issues
  • Ability to debug and triage bugs and escalations from customers
  • Can communicate technical capabilities of the product to customers
  • Experience writing scripts or internal tools using APIs, and functional knowledge of SQL
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to break down complex technical concepts clearly
  • A mindset of customer empathy and ability to solve challenging problems
Bonus points
  • Experience as an early or founding member of a support team, including building processes from scratch
  • Startup experience and familiarity with scaling a support team
  • Programming experience in one or more of Typescript, Python, or Ruby
  • You have worked on modern enterprise software which is business critical
  • Experience creating knowledge base articles and internal documentation
  • Familiarity with at least one ticketing system, such as Pylon, Zendesk, Front, or similar
Compensation

The estimated base salary range for this role is $137,000 - $205,600. In addition to your base salary, Metronome offers a competitive total rewards package, including but not limited to, market-benched equity, sales incentive pay (for eligible roles), comprehensive health benefits, and other benefits listed below.

The actual base salary will vary based on factors including market value, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process, and previous experience. The listed range above should serve as a guideline and may be modified at any time.

We believe that compensation reflects the expected impact you will have at the company, relative to the market value of your role. We also conduct an annual pay audit to ensure pay is fair, indexed to market value, and that pay takes into account continued performance at Metronome. If you would like to learn more about our philosophy or about why we are all billing nerds, send us a message. We'd love to talk!

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