At Khoros, our passion is to help the world’s best brands create customers for life. We build products we’re proud of, and we’re passionate about customer success. As part of the Vista Equity family, you’ll receive best-in-class development opportunities and the ability to work with global brand customers like Samsung, HP, Sony, and Visa.

Position: Technical Support Engineer -Mission Critical Technical Support

We want to add an MCS Engineer (Technical Support Engineer) to the Mission Critical Support Team. You’ll be responsible for providing critical support to product outages for three different products as well as proactively monitoring product infrastructure and mitigating performance issues that have the potential to become an outage if not checked. The position requires one to work in 24x7 shifts. The team sets high standards for the work they do while also maintaining a learning-oriented work environment. You’ll be challenged to scale up quickly and learn many new technologies. This is a customer-facing role.

Some Responsibilities Include

Work on Severity 1 issues (outages) across all products and for different customers. Respond to customers within defined SLAs and committed timelines. Monitor product infrastructure through different Observability tools and take timely action to resolve them. Proactively reaching out to customers when any potential issues are identified and fixed. Develop RCA while working with engineering teams. Identifying documentation requirements in our knowledge base.

Minimum Requirement:

3+ years of experience in technical support roles, ideally supporting web applications.  Basic Administration experience with any Application Server like Apache Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, Websphere, etc. Exposure to JVM thread dumps and Heap Dumps analysis.  User-level experience in Linux Environment. Experience or knowledge of Observability tools: DataDog, ELK, SumoLogic, CloudWatch. Ability to understand and troubleshoot basic application server-related technical issues. Excellent written and spoken communication skills  Able to communicate effectively between teams and individuals of varying technical expertise. Able to multi-task effectively while working on customer issues. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field involving computer systems engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to Haves

Experience in Web Technologies like HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, etc., and Programming languages like Java, J2EE, or Python.  Experience in Scripting languages like Shell, bash, etc.  Technical or support certifications such as ITIL V3/V4. General idea about Multi-Tier Web Application Architecture.  Familiar with the latest trends in social channels (forums, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) 

About Khoros

The Khoros platform connects every facet of customer engagement, including digital contact centers, messaging, chat, online brand communities, CX analytics, and social media management so brands can listen, respond, and act on customer conversations- creating deep relationships and fostering brand loyalty and advocacy.

Khoros offers a great working environment and competitive compensation and benefits packages. We're looking for fast-thinking, innovative, passionate team players who enjoy brainstorming new ideas, working with the best and brightest in the social media software industry.

Our Core Values

  Accountability - We embrace an ownership mentality

 

Customer-Centricity - We are obsessed with achieving customer value

 

 Agility - We move with urgency and purpose