Support Engineer Tier 3

Cymulate
United States
On-site

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for highly technical support engineers with deep systems troubleshooting experience who work proactively in collaborative environments, particularly those with expertise in cybersecurity and distributed systems.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in troubleshooting distributed systems and a history of working closely with R&D teams
    — “Work side-by-side with R&D engineers on debugging, root cause analysis, and permanent fixes”
  • Individuals who have experience with endpoint agents and a proactive mindset for resolving complex issues
    — “Experience with agents or services running on customer machines”
  • Professionals with strong analytical skills and a history of resolving performance and stability issues
    — “Analyze and resolve performance, scalability, and stability issues”

Things to consider

  • The role requires independent ownership of complex issues from investigation to resolution
    — “Ability to independently own issues from investigation to resolution”
  • Candidates should be comfortable working with multiple operating systems and observability tools
    — “Experience working with Windows, Linux, and macOS”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in root cause analysis and long-term solutions for distributed systems
    — “Push for high-quality, long-term solutions, not just short-term fixes”
  • Emphasize your history of mentoring and collaboration with engineering teams
    — “Provide technical guidance and mentoring to Tier 2 support engineers”
  • Demonstrate your ability to analyze logs and debug backend services and agents
    — “Perform deep analysis of application, system, and agent logs”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • escalation management
  • recurring issue identification
  • high-quality solutions
  • R&D collaboration
  • customer-side agent troubleshooting
Typical background
technical supportbackend engineeringproduction engineering

Skills & requirements

Required

TroubleshootingRoot Cause AnalysisDistributed SystemsNetworkingLogs AnalysisDebuggingPerformance TuningScalabilityStabilityTechnical Mentoring

Preferred

CybersecurityCloud-native SystemsMicroservicesDistributed ArchitecturesR&D CollaborationFluency In Spanish And/or Portuguese

Stack & domain

TroubleshootingDistributed SystemsLogsObservability ToolsNetworking FundamentalsProxiesFirewallsWindowsLinuxMacosAgentsPerformanceScalabilityStabilityNetworkingConnectivityCloud-native SystemsMicroservicesDistributed ArchitecturesAICybersecurityEndpoint AgentsSensorsSecurity ProductsProactiveOwnershipAnticipationExcellenceQualityEngineering Best PracticesDebuggingAnalyticalProblem-solving

About the role

Original posting from Cymulate via Greenhouse

Make Your Mark

Cymulate’s Continuous Security Validation enables companies to challenge, assess and optimize their cyber-security posture against the evolving cyberthreat landscape, simply and continuously.

With world-class clients we strive to bring the highest level of service to everything we do. Our team is made up of the very best people for the job and as we grow, we’re always on the lookout for people with the skills, experience, and personality that will let us both shine. With high scores on Gartner, G2 and Glassdoor, our clients and employees have let us know what they love about us.

Cymulate's Continuous Security Validation enables companies to challenge, assess and optimize their cyber-security posture against the evolving cyberthreat landscape, simply and continuously.With world-class clients we strive to bring the highest level of service to everything we do. Our team is made up of the very best people for the job and as we grow, we're always on the lookout for people with the skills, experience, and personality that will let us both shine. With high scores on Gartner, G2 and Glassdoor, our clients and employees have let us know what they love about us.

What Does The Team Do?

The Cymulate R&D team are the crucial behind-the-scenes wonders who bring our powerful products to life before releasing them into the world. They are constantly asking how things can be improved, solved, or made easier for our customers. There's no challenge they'll back down from, and we'd never want them to!

What You Will Do?

Serve as the final escalation point for complex and critical production issues

Take a proactive role in identifying recurring issues, weak points, and improvement opportunities

Push for high-quality, long-term solutions, not just short-term fixes

Work side-by-side with R&D engineers on debugging, root cause analysis, and permanent fixes

Investigate issues across backend services, databases, agents, and customer environments

Perform deep analysis of application, system, and agent logs

Troubleshoot customer-side agents running as services

Analyze and resolve performance, scalability, and stability issues

Investigate networking and connectivity issues, including proxies and firewalls

Provide technical guidance and mentoring to Tier 2 support engineers

Document root causes, technical findings, and recommended solutions

What Will You Have?

Strong background as a highly technical support engineer, backend engineer, or production engineer

Proven experience troubleshooting complex, distributed systems

Strong experience working with logs and observability tools

Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, proxies, firewalls)

Experience debugging proxy-related issues

Experience working with Windows, Linux, and macOS

Experience with agents or services running on customer machines

Highly proactive mindset — takes ownership, anticipates issues, and drives them to resolution

A natural pusher for excellence, quality, and engineering best practices

Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Ability to independently own issues from investigation to resolution

Advantages

Background or strong interest in Cybersecurity

Experience with endpoint agents, sensors, or security products

Experience with cloud-native systems (AWS / Azure / GCP)

Familiarity with microservices and distributed architectures

Experience working closely with R&D teams

Fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese

Source: Cymulate careers (Greenhouse)

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