Customer Success Engineer, Infrastructure

The data science community is diverse in skill sets, objectives, and preferences for tools and workflows. Through our innovative visualization tools and software, we enable the creation, analysis and sharing of data-driven insights across the globe.

As a member of Plotly’s Customer Success & Support team, you will be part of a dedicated group  helping customers unlock the full potential of Dash and Dash Enterprise. Our Customer Success team focuses on building trust and confidence in our products and services, ensuring the customers have a seamless experience from onboarding to ongoing support. 

 

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We're looking for a  Customer Success Engineer, Infrastructure who will be responsible for helping our enterprise customers install, optimize, and use our commercial enterprise product offerings. There is a high focus on installation and infrastructure based issues. This will involve debugging over phone and video calls, analyzing log files, creatively satisfying the constraints of highly varied customer environments, and discussing thorny technical issues with our software development engineers.

The technologies you will be working with include but may not be limited to: 

• Bash or Python
• Linux systems / Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Docker
• AWS, Azure, GCP ( consumer and enterprise-level solutions)
• Kubernetes

Core job responsibilities:

• In collaboration with our Product Development team, give direct, in-depth support to customers  installing, upgrading, and using our products
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the environments where Plotly customers deploy and use our products (on premise, AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Seek to understand customer needs and help them appropriately optimize the custom configuration of their Plotly Enterprise instances
• With the Engineering and Customer Success teams, develop ways to improve and streamline processes to help our customers quickly reach peak efficiency with our product
• Identify and communicate product and documentation improvements

Job requirements:

Technical skills:

• 2+ years or more of Linux systems administration and general networking experience
• Basic understanding of client-server architecture in the context of web applications / a PaaS
• 2+ years of experience providing system-level customer support
• 2+ years of experience with at least one public cloud environment
• 1+ years of experience with Kubernetes
• 1+ years of experience with Docker
• Familiarity reading and understanding code in at least one programming language, such as Bash or Python
• Preferred: familiarity with any of LDAP, SAML, Windows enterprise systems administration
• Work schedule: 8am to 12pm core hours, flexible in the afternoon.

Professional skills:

• Ability to communicate clearly and positively with clients of various skill levels and backgrounds
• Works well in an open and collaborative environment
• Can autonomously drive their own work
• A sincere belief in the importance of following and producing good documentation
• Comfort with troubleshooting problems with only indirect access to customer environments

Assets:

• An understanding of service level agreements and how to make a product offering meet them
• Some experience with one or more of reliability, testing, automation, observability, and performance work

 

Don’t meet all the requirements, but you feel you would be a great fit to our plot-legion? Don’t hesitate to apply!

 

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What you can expect from us:

 

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