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Title: Senior Support Engineer
Type: Full time
Location: Onsite (Sydney CBD, Australia)
Department: Support
Reports to: Support Manager

Job description:

Providing "Legendary" technical support to customers via email, live chat and phone. This role requires the ability to identify root cause for reported customer issues with the Atlassian products, and provide appropriate solutions to minimize customer down time and customer business impact.

This is a senior role within the Support centre located in Sydney. This role will be a key support service delivery point and technical lead for the ongoing successful deployment of Atlassian products.

Although primarily a Support position, resolution of customer issues may involve code error diagnosis, testing, validation and implementation.

There is an extensive requirement for the Senior Support Engineer to be able to read and understand Java code to determine behaviour and function.

Responsibilities:

  • Debug, code and create patches to help customers.
  • Provide code examples to customers.
  • Mentor and train junior engineers.
  • Help improve and streamline internal processes.
  • Correspondence with customers via Email and web based applications to resolve customer issues.
  • Live Chat with customers to resolve issues.
  • Phone calls with customers to resolve issues.
  • Verify Bugs raised against products.
  • Help improve the documentation of products to help customers and minmise support load.
  • Replicate customer environments to enable the replication and debugging of customer issues.

Required skills:

  • In depth Operating Systems knowledge.
  • Java/J2EE Programming experience.
  • Experience with 1 or more Application Servers.
  • Database and SQL experience.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to gather relevant information and diagnose issues effectively and efficiently.
  • Proven ability to solve problems and learn new technologies.

See also:
Attributes we value in every employee.

How to apply:
If you think this position suits you, send an email to jobs@atlassian.com with the subject "Senior Support Engineer (SYD)" and attach:
  • your resume (text, HTML, PDF or Word format)
  • a cover letter (text only please) explaining why you are best for the position

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