Customer support engineer

Location: San Jose, CA

BlackArrow is looking for a dynamic, highly motivated customer support engineer to provide customer and technical support for our BlackArrow Advanced Advertising System.  This candidate must have the ability to manage customer expectations by providing solutions to novice as well as technical customers, exceptional troubleshooting skills, excellent communication and writing skills, and the ability to thrive in a demanding, fast-paced environment. As a customer support engineer, you will be responsible for all customer facing requests and have a significant impact in advancing our customer success within the dynamic video advertising marketplace.

Responsibilities:

  • Be an expert on BlackArrow solutions and technical architecture, integration points, workflow, and functionality
  • Provide technical support via phone, email, ticketing and other support systems (Salesforce, RT, Jira, etc.)
  • Maintain, educate and support both customers and internal staff on in our many production and trial environments
  • Participate in product launches, upgrades and releases interacting with all teams required
  • Ability to concisely summarize complex issues and to make clear, compelling recommendations
  • Resolve and close all customer and technical requests and issues
  • Troubleshoot, investigate and escalate customer requests/issues while consulting all teams
  • Investigate, troubleshoot, duplicate undocumented features (bugs)
  • Follow BlackArrow company and support defined processes
  • Proven experience working with extremely tight deadlines in order to meet aggressive schedules
  • Maintain an extremely positive attitude and deliver the highest level of professionalism to all customer
  • Create customer facing documentation such as FAQs, Tech Tips and more
  • Review internal documentation and provide feedback to all relevant parties
  • Assist Quality Assurance in testing new releases in  QA/development environments
  • Assist other staff with projects related to process definition, product installation and related
  • Be an ambassador for BlackArrow products and services

Requirements:

  • At least 3-5 years of customer and/or technical support skills (phone, email & ticket processing)
  • At least 3-5 years of system administration skills in UNIX or Linux (CentOS & Redhat)
  • Provide a working understanding of browser technology (MS Explorer v6.0+, Firefox, Safari & Chrome)
  • Requires understanding of HTTP, XML, HTML and other computer-based protocols
  • Understanding of technical tools such as VM, TraceRT, NSLookup, Firebug, Charles and more
  • Proven track record in managing customer expectations both technical and non technical (account management)
  • Strong listening, speaking and writing skills
  • Exceptional time-management ability
  • Ability to read Apache, MySQL and other log files
  • Ability to self troubleshooting issues, build own knowledge and provide a transfer of knowledge to others
  • “Can do” attitude – assertively take ownership of tasks, projects and issues until final resolution achieved
  • Demonstrate a high level of technical, analytical, and problem solving skills
  • Ability to learn new technologies as required and continually advance your skills as needed
  • Must have a flexible work schedule, plus be available to work on-call 24×7 rotational shift
  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience (3-5 years)

Preferred:

  • Knowledge of cable-based standards SCTE 130, SCTE 35, ADI, Canoe CIP, CTAM, EBIF and other protocols
  • Experience with broadband advertising standards such as IAB VAST

BlackArrow offers a fast, fun, creative and diverse work environment. We provide a full benefits package consisting of medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) and stock options. To apply, please submit your cover letter, resume and position you are applying for to jobs@blackarrow.tv.

BlackArrow is an equal opportunity employer. Principals only, please.