- Location
- San Jose, Costa Rica
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Department
- Customer Technical Support, Global 1001172
- Seniority
- Senior
- Source
- Greenhouse
Description
Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.
About the Role
Technical Customer Support is our customers’ “hotline.” This department has revolutionized the way we think about technical support. They face the challenging reality of one-on-one support and leave our customers with a positive impression, providing invaluable feedback to developers and testers.
We are now looking for a Senior Technical Support Engineer, Sec-AI
What You’ll Do
- Leads the end-to-end post-sales technical support function for complex, multi-stakeholder customer environments, independently diagnosing and resolving intricate issues while exercising sound judgment to prioritize impact and deliver scalable, effective solutions
- Drives SLA performance excellence by proactively identifying systemic gaps, influencing team practices and workflows, and championing a customer-first mindset that consistently exceeds response and resolution targets
- Champions rigorous documentation standards across the team, ensuring all issues, troubleshooting steps, and root cause analyses are thoroughly captured, while mentoring junior engineers in structured problem-solving and logging practices
- Leads knowledge management initiatives by authoring and curating high-quality KB articles from RCAs, driving a culture of reusable resolutions and continuous improvement across the support organization
- Exercises independent judgment to determine appropriate escalation paths to engineering, influencing cross-functional teams and maintaining customer confidence throughout the full resolution lifecycle
- Drives operational excellence by defining, tracking, and improving key metrics such as MTTR, NPS, and CSAT, influencing team behaviors and process changes to deliver measurable, high-quality customer outcomes
- Leads with deep technical expertise across Data Privacy and Security (DLP, Encryption, Access, Classification), SQL/NoSQL databases, Linux and Bash scripting, Networking, Cloud Platforms, Docker/Kubernetes, and Virtualization—influencing technical decisions and mentoring peers on best practices and emerging approaches.Proven track record leading technical support for Data Privacy, Security, and Cloud environments, with the ability to independently navigate complexity and deliver outcomes with consultation on higher-impact decisions
- Proactively builds strategic partnerships with Engineering and Product Management, influencing the product roadmap by translating support insights—including bugs, usability gaps, and enhancement requests—into actionable feedback that drives meaningful product improvement
What You’ll Bring
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field with 7+ years of work experience as a technical support engineer in a related technical field
- Hands-on experience with key technologies, such as Data Privacy and Security (DLP, Encryption, Access, Classification etc), SQL/NoSQL databases, Linux and Bash scripting, Networking and OSI model, Filesystems, Cloud Platforms, Docker/Kubernetes containers, and Virtualization
- Demonstrated depth in all aspects of technical support lifecycle, such as ticket logging, triage, escalation, customer response, RCA, and KBs
- Proficiency in one or more Technical Support systems, such as Zendesk
- Strong presence with excellent communication and leadership skills, and a proven track record of collaborative success with customers, vendors, staff, and internal business partners
- Understanding of Data Security and Privacy, including corresponding regulations, is a strong plus
- No travel is expected. However, this role requires participation in a 24x7 technical support coverage shift that could occasionally be at odds with the resident timezone of the engineer
What You’ll Get
- Two weeks of paid vacation, 12 statutory holidays, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
- Paid parental leave: 8 days for fathers, 122 days for birthing parents, 92 days for adoptive parents
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage fully funded through INS Premium for employees and dependents
- Mental health support, therapy sessions, and virtual care via our Employee Assistance Program
- Retirement and social security contributions through Costa Rica’s statutory programs
- Life insurance equal to 24x monthly salary, plus disability and funeral coverage
- Daily cafeteria subsidy
- Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support
- Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries, mentoring, workshops, and global learning events
Please note: The position is based in San Jose, Costa Rica. If the applicant is permanently located outside of Costa Rica, Veeam reserves the right to decline the application. All applications must be submitted in English.
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