Sr. Support Engineer
Job Summary
LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) is the global leader in enterprise conversations. Hundreds of the worlds leading brands including HSBC Chipotle and Virgin Media use our award-winning Conversational Cloud platform to connect with millions of consumers. We power nearly a billion conversational interactions every month providing a uniquely rich data set and safety tools to unlock the power of Conversational AI for better customer experiences.
In this role you will:
- Be the senior technical focal point of customer issues raised within the EMEA region.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues raised by global customers maintaining high customer satisfaction.
- Take ownership of escalated issues and work to resolve advanced technical problems.
- Become a Subject Matter Expert for assigned technical areas or platform features working closely with product developers to build knowledge in support troubleshooting tools and methods.
- Act as the primary support liaison between customers Product Management Engineering/R&D and various business units.
- Serve as the voice of the customer providing valuable insights and feedback to development and service teams regarding recurring issues.
- Mentor and educate team members empowering them to handle technical escalations effectively and reducing the overall number of technical escalations.
- Determine pain points analyze recurring issues and contribute to the development of processes and requirements for better customer support tools and solutions.
- Lead or participate in the Support organizations internal projects.
Skills and Abilities
- Excellent service-oriented verbal and written English communication skills.
- Customer-facing skills with the ability to lead complex and sensitive situations including managing technical bridges.
- Proven expertise in analyzing troubleshooting and providing solutions for deep and complex technical issues.
- Broad foundational knowledge across web technologies and protocols including familiarity with the core concepts of networking APIs and SDKs.
- Good understanding of HTML/CSS and JavaScript.
- Good understanding of data retrieval using SQL.
- Experience utilizing troubleshooting and monitoring tools such as Fiddler Wireshark Chrome DevTools or logging systems like Kibana and Splunk.
- Proactive self-learner with a natural curiosity to solve problems and the ability to extend technical capabilities to new domains.
- Resilience to work in a fast-paced stressful environment and meet tight timelines.
- Willingness to be on-call for high-severity issues and work flexible hours including holidays weekends and shift work as needed for crisis management.
Education and Experience
- Minimum of 4 years of experience working as a Senior Support Engineer Tier 3/4 Support Engineer or an equivalent customer-facing position.
- Extensive experience supporting enterprise-level customers preferably with Fortune 500 organizations.
- Hands-on application support experience (not IT/helpdesk support) within a SaaS or web company.
- Experience working with SaaS/Cloud Infrastructure.
- An academic or Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Information Technology Engineering Mathematics or a related field is preferred.
Benefits:
- Health: medical and mental care
- Multisport card
- Food vouchers
- Time away: vacation national/religious holidays and five personal days.
- Family: parental leave
- Development: Generous tuition reimbursement and access to internal professional development resources.
- Additional: exclusive perks and discounts
- #LI-Remote
Why youll love working here:
As leaders in enterprise customer conversations we celebrate diversity empowering our team to forge impactful conversations globally. LivePerson is a place where uniqueness is embraced growth is constant and everyone is empowered to create their own success. And were very proud to have earned recognition from Fast Company Newsweek and BuiltIn for being a top innovative beloved and remote-friendly workplace.
Belonging at LivePerson:
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal state and local law.
We are committed to the accessibility needs of applicants and employees. We provide reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should inform their recruiting contact upon initial connection.
The talent acquisition team at LivePerson has recently been notified of a phishing scam targeting candidates applying for our open roles. Scammers have been posing as hiring managers and recruiters in an effort to access candidates personal and financial information. This phishing scam is not isolated to only LivePerson and has been documented in news articles and media note that any communication from our hiring teams at LivePerson regarding a job opportunity will only be made by a LivePerson employee with an @ email address.
LivePerson does not ask for personal or financial information as part of our interview process including but not limited to your social security number online account passwords credit card numbers passport information and other related banking information. If you have any questions and or concerns please feel free to contact
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
LivePerson makes life easier by transforming how people communicate with brands. Our 18,000 customers, including leading brands like HSBC, Orange, and The Home Depot, use our conversational commerce solutions to orchestrate humans and AI, at scale, and create a convenient, deeply pers ... View more