Technical Support Engineer

About Neo4jNeo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily, and quickly.Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding of their business and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems.Over 84% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.At Neo4j, we're proud to build the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers.These solutions have helped NASA get to Mars two years earlier, broke the Panama Papers for the ICIJ, and are helping Transport for London to cut congestion by 10% and save $750M a year.Some of our other notable customers include Intuit, Lockheed Martin, Novartis, UBS, and Walmart.Neo4j experienced rapid growth this year as organizations looking to deploy generative AI (GenAI) recognized graph databases as essential for improving its accuracy, transparency, and explainability.Growth was further fueled by enterprise demand for Neo4j's cloud offering and partnerships with leading cloud hyperscalers and ecosystem leaders.Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us on LinkedIn.Our VisionAt Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships.We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we're disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.What You'll DoAs a Technical Support Engineer, you'll spend your first 2-4 months immersed in learning Neo4j's products, support and other internal processes, and working support cases from customers to build up the appropriate level of experience and insight needed to deliver the level of support Neo4j's customers have come to appreciate and expect.You will also have the opportunity to become deeply skilled in specific areas of interest within the product, acting as a Subject Matter Expert for our Field Engineering team, including Support.Last but not least, you will be an integral part of the Support Engineering team, working together to improve and evolve the product and the support we deliver to meet the needs of our customers and opportunities for graph solutions in the market.QualificationsA Technical Support Engineer at Neo4j is comfortable troubleshooting technical issues, speaking with customers about their needs, questions, and concerns, and working with their colleagues as part of a growing team distributed across the globe.Specific qualifications for the role include :Role SkillsAbility to handle a range of urgent to minor support requests during business hours, with occasional off-hours scheduled work and on-call shifts.Establish and constantly build upon a solid technical understanding of Neo4j and how our customers build, deploy and manage applications using our graph platform.Collaborate effectively within Customer Success, Product Engineering, and other Neo4j teams to understand and resolve customer issues completely and expediently.Constantly work to streamline and improve processes, tools, Neo4j's product offerings, and the overall customer experience.Know when to seek help, and always be willing and open to offering expertise and assistance to colleagues and customers alike.Effectively communicate with all levels of customer contacts including CTOs, management, developers and operations teams.Provide valuable guidance and insight through email, telephone, remote conferencing and occasionally in-person engagements.Work with Product Management and Product Engineering to help define and drive fixes and enhancements to address customer needs.Passion for solving Customer problems.Take responsibility and ownership with Customer problems.Technical SkillsTimely triage varying issues based on error messages, log files, threads dumps, stack traces, sample code, and other available data points.Troubleshoot performance issues in JVM based software (4j means for Java).Consult with customers on Cypher query tuning (SQL for graphs) and data model design to address performance needs and expanding use cases.Embrace Neo4j as a part of the customer's overall architecture, with a need to advise and troubleshoot client application driver connections from official drivers in the following languages / frameworks : Java, Spring, JavaScript, Python, .NET, Go and the JDBC API.Review and provide suggested improvements to Java User Defined Procedures (and UDFs) and other Neo4j Java API questions (Java experience preferred).Efficiently troubleshoot cluster issues across multiple servers, data centers, and regions, in a variety of clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc), virtual, and bare metal environments.Possess demonstrated proficiency in Linux (primarily) and Windows (secondary) environments (#1 and #2 most common OS's, respectively).Background in database technologies (SQL, noSQL ) or competing graph database technologies.Docker and Kubernetes, distributed technologies and clustering.Nice to have: Graph Data Science technology experience, UI, UX.Other RequirementsB.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or Engineering, or other technical fields strongly considered.Occasional travel, up to 20% expected.Preferable prior experience in a customer facing support role.Seniority levelAssociateEmployment typeFull-timeJob functionInformation TechnologyIT Services and IT Consulting and Software Development#J-*****-Ljbffr