Technical Support Engineer

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• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, and countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper-growth environment.
• You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
• You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best.
• Product Expertise: Become an expert on Samsara’s product portfolio of complete Internet of Things (“IoT”) solutions combining hardware, software, and cloud to bring real-time visibility, analytics, and AI to operations across multiple industries.
• Technical Troubleshooting: Use your technical knowledge and product expertise to troubleshoot and resolve customer issues with medium to high complexity.
• Responsiveness & Resolution: Respond to customers and resolve their inquiries in a timely and helpful manner with a primary focus on meeting our SLA goals.
• Documentation: Partner with Enablement to author and maintain customer-facing knowledge base articles to help improve the self-serviceability for our end users.
• Partnerships: Work closely to develop partnerships with our Engineering and Product teams in order to reproduce bugs and build testbeds as necessary.
• Feedback Loop: Provide direct feedback to Support Management for product and process improvements to help enhance the customer experience.
• Team Player: Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical), or other technical fields.
• 3–5 years of experience in support, engineering, or other technical roles, including 1–2 years of demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting mobile applications.
• Strong familiarity with using CRMs like Zendesk or Salesforce.
• Technical know-how - you’re comfortable interfacing with engineers, translating complex technical concepts into everyday language, and working with SaaS systems.
• Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills coupled with the ability to influence individual contributors and leaders across the company.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, you can speak both Engineer and Human.
• Strong bias for action, ability to dive deep, and insistence on the highest standards.
• Ability to work in a hyper-growth environment with shifting priorities.
• Willingness to work holidays and weekends as needed to meet customer demands.
• Experience with industrial systems, electronics, tinkering with cars or IoT devices, or similar hands-on work is a big plus.
• Experience troubleshooting API’s.