Lead Customer Support Engineer - Database

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

About the role

Fivetran Support partners with some of the most passionate teams in the world, our customer’s teams, to deliver a best in class experience. Via a collaborative and holistic approach that is focused not only on resolution but also prevention of future issues the Lead Customer Support Engineer (CSE) acts as our customer’s technical champion within Fivetran. At Fivetran our CSE’s take on exciting technical challenges while partnering with customers both internal and external to drive issues to an outcome that exceeds expectations.

The Customer Support team is responsible for creating solutions and providing excellent experiences for every customer.  

As a Lead Customer Support Engineer you will be working with new and existing customers in a highly technical capacity, ensuring successful onboarding of new customers and continued success for existing valued customers.

This is a full time position based out of our Bengaluru office. 

As a Lead Customer Support Engineer at Fivetran you will:

• In conjunction with leadership and management, you will need to partner with engineering to design troubleshooting tools, alerts and notifications to improve our ability to support our customers. 
• Help define and improve processes.
• Lead and drive technical and non-technical projects in your pod.
• Onboard and coach new team members in your pod.
• Act as Subject Matter Experts (SME)
• Identify and proactively support Fivetran customers and partners via multiple channels (web, email, phone, virtual meetings, etc.)
• Help customers round the clock and should be willing to work in shifts in a 24x7 work environment.
• Share and communicate roadmaps with external teams, as well as, understand & align team goals to deliver results efficiently.

Your Superpowers:

• Exp : 8+ years
• Strong Customer Advocacy skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English 
• Highly developed, process-oriented skills for troubleshooting, problem solving, and issue resolution
• Combination of empathy and confidence to lead escalations in your pod
• Lead pods with a passion for building a positive culture where we leave our ego at the door with a selfless attitude
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment, and function in global arenas 
• Excellent analytical skills and strong attention to details
• Ability to read and understand advanced level Java/ C++ (any programming language) and solid experience in reading and analyzing Java stack traces and exceptions
• Solid experience with databases (SQL and NoSQL) and SQL commands/ functions and procedures
• Solid experience in data migration, data warehousing, DBA level activities such as database performance tuning, upgrades, logging etc in Postgres, Oracle, Mysql, SQL Server, or Mongo or data replication using MySQL binary logs, Mongo’s oplogs etc
• Excellent networking troubleshooting abilities related to SSH, TCP/ IP protocols and AWS security groups
• Experience building or troubleshooting APIs
• Understanding of Data Warehousing fundamentals and concepts

        Perks of working with us:

• Medical insurance, Life Insurance &  personal accident insurance 
• Leaves
• Professional development and training opportunities. 
• Company happy hours and fun team building activities
• Opportunity to work with Silicon Valley start-up working on new technologies
• Competitive total compensation package (Salary + Equity)

We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.

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