Senior Customer Support Engineering

About Vercel:

Vercel’s Frontend Cloud provides the developer experience and infrastructure to build scale and secure a faster more personalized web. Customers like Under Armour eBay The Washington Post Johnson & Johnson and Zapier use Vercel to build dynamic user experiences on the web.

At Vercel our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products and that goes hand in hand with creating an environment where you can do the best work of your life.

About the Role:

Vercel is looking for a Senior Customer Support Engineer to assist our customers with technical problems and questions when using Vercel products and services. Senior Customer Support Engineer responsibilities include resolving customer concerns creating and improving internal tooling and engineering solutions to help Vercel customers get the most out of the platform.

To be successful in this role you must be an excellent communicator who’s able to earn our customers’ trust and understand technical problems quickly. You will also ideally have a background in frontend development enjoy technical writing and have a passion for digging deep to find and resolve root causes. In addition to this you will be comfortable with evening weekend and on-call work based on a rota system.

Ultimately you will help establish our reputation as a company that is exceptional at helping its customers meet their goals throughout all parts of the customer journey while engineering solutions to constantly improve the customer experience.

What You Will Do:

• Solving interesting cases for Vercel customers.

• Troubleshooting customer issues alongside our engineering team.

• Working with other Vercel teams to provide advice and assistance both internally and externally.

• Developing and improving internal tools alongside engineering.

• Specializing in a few product areas and owning that within the team.

• Improving existing and identifying new internal documentation processes and policies.

• Assisting Customer Success Managers with Enterprise requests.

About You:

• You lead by example and provide feedback to mentor other members of the team.

• You have frontend development experience with Next.js.

• You understand modern web architecture frontend frameworks like React cloud technologies serverless computing and DNS. You can explain this clearly to others.

• You enjoy engineering solutions to resolve root causes of recurring problems.

• You are experienced with incident management and procedural communication.

• You possess exceptional communication skills.

• You are comfortable working with a fully remote globally distributed team.

• You have a passion to deliver a customer experience second to none.

• Availability to work within a weekend and on-call rota.

• 3+ years experience in a highly technical support role.

Bonus If You:

• Have experience supporting backend runtime environments especially Node.js.

• Have experience with CDNs and a good understanding of caching techniques.

• Work with monorepos and/or custom complex CI/CD pipelines.

Benefits:

• Great compensation package and stock options.

• Inclusive Healthcare Package.

• Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.

• Flexible Time Off - Flexible vacation policy with a recommended 4-weeks per year and paid holidays.

• Remote Friendly - Work with teammates from different time zones across the globe.

• We will provide you the gear you need to do your role and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color gender expression or identity sexual orientation national origin citizenship age marital status veteran status disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.