Best suited to mid-level technical support professionals with expertise in big data and cloud technologies, comfortable with 25% travel.
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Original posting from Starburst via Greenhouse
About Starburst
Starburst delivers enterprise intelligence at scale by giving organizations secure, governed access to all their data, wherever it lives. Built for distributed data environments, Starburst helps enterprises power AI and analytics without the cost and complexity of traditional data consolidation. With open standards including Trino and Apache Iceberg, Starburst enables trusted access to complete enterprise context while helping organizations avoid vendor lock-in. Leading global enterprises trust Starburst to fuel AI, analytics, and enterprise intelligence. Learn more at starburst.ai.
Job Summary
The Technical Support Engineer (TSE) acts as a Starburst SME for a book of Majors and Strategic accounts. The TSE is responsible for answering all technical questions within both standard and custom deployment environments and assisting with supported LTS upgrades. The TSE is also responsible for peer training and development, personal continued education, and contributing to our reference documentation. They will coordinate closely with Support leadership, Engineering, Product and Accounts teams to ensure our customers receive a value driven enterprise experience.
A TSE is able to work independently, with minimal guidance, and demonstrates an expert degree of proficiency in both SEP and Galaxy.
Responsibilities
Technical Support:
Provide support for standard and custom deployments
Answer break/fix and non-break/fix technical questions through SFDC ticketing system
Efficiently reproduce reported issues by leveraging tools (minikube, minitrino, docker-compose, etc.), identify root causes, and provide solutions
Open SEP and Galaxy bug reports in Jira and feature requests in Aha!
LTS Upgrades:
Provide upgrade support upon customer request
Customer must be on a supported LTS version at the time of request
TSE must communicate unsupported LTS requests to the Account team as these require PS services
Monthly Technical check-insConduct regularly scheduled technical check-ins with each BU
Discuss open support tickets, provide updates on product bugs and provide best practice recommendations based on your observations and ticket trends
Responsible for ensuring customer environments are on supported LTS versions
Knowledge Sharing/Technical Enablement: Knowledge exchange and continued technical enablement are crucial for the development of our team and the customer experience. It's essential that we keep our product expertise and documentation current and that all team members have access to information.
Contribute to our reference documentation
Lead peer training
Consultant to our content teams
Own your personal technical education journey
Project Involvement
Contribute to or drive components of departmental and cross functional initiatives
Partner with Leadership
Identify areas of opportunity with potential solutions for inefficiencies or obstacles within the team and cross-functionally
Provide feedback to your manager on continued ed. opportunities, project ideas, etc.
Requirements
5+ years of support experience
3+ years of Big Data, Docker, Kubernetes and cloud technologies experience
Ability to Travel: This role will require 25% in-person travel for purposes including but not limited to new hire onboarding, team and department offsites, customer engagements, and other company events. Actual travel expectations may vary by role and business needs.
Skills
Big Data (Hadoop, Data Lakes, Spark)
Docker and Kubernetes
Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Security - Authentication (LDAP, OAuth2.0) and Authorization technologies
SSL/TLS
Linux Skills
DBMS Concepts/SQL Exposure Languages: SQL, Java, Python, Bash
Location: PST
Build your career at Starburst
All-Stars have the opportunity and freedom to realize their true potential. By building alongside top talent, we’re empowered to take ownership of our careers and drive meaningful change. Anchored in industry-proven technology and unprecedented success, All-Stars are taking on the challenge everyday to disrupt our industry – and the future.
Our global workforce is supported by a competitive Total Rewards program that reflects our commitment to a rewarding and supportive work environment. This includes a variety of benefits like competitive pay, attractive stock grants, flexible paid time off, and more.
We are committed to fostering an intentional, inclusive, and diverse culture that drives deep engagement, authentic belonging, and an exceptional All-Star experience. We believe that diversity of thought, perspective, background and experience will enable us to own what we do, drive our success and empower our All-Stars to show up authentically.
Starburst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state
or local laws.
Source: Starburst careers (Greenhouse)