Technical Support Engineer - EMEA

About the role:

Sigma is growing and our user base is growing just as fast. We are looking for talented support engineers with a strong grasp on analytics, curious by nature and a desire to help. As a technical support engineer at Sigma Computing, you will be part of a talented team of engineers, with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for everyone. This team was recognized by TrustRadius as Best Customer Support 2021!

What you will be doing:

• You will work with Sigma’s customers and the pre-sales team to assist with the diagnosis and resolution of complex technical issues. 
• Working closely with the development team, you will develop best practices and tools for diagnosing issues and optimizing the service for performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional groups - backend, frontend, devops, design, product, and the go-to-market teams to create a first-class experience for users of our product.
  

Qualifications we are looking for: 

• 5+ years of industry experience supporting enterprise products for data analytics.
• Computer Science fundamentals. Strong domain expertise in databases and business intelligence
• SQL proficiency - Very good grasp on JOINs, Partitions, Window Functions, Aggregations, CTEs, Sub-queries etc. 
• SQL query performance troubleshooting and plan generation understanding 
• Proficient in data modeling concepts
• Ability to properly chart data into logical visualizations
• A proven track record of building trust with customers and bringing issues to resolution quickly
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A strong desire to build scalable processes for issue resolution (documenting common patterns for issue resolution, building tooling for diagnosing issues etc)
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work with multiple departments and co-ordinate issue triaging, diagnosis and resolution
• Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work

Highly Desirable Skills & Experiences

• Supporting a cloud service in production
• Experience working with Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery
• Knowledge of GCP, AWS
• Startup experience