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Technical Support Engineer
Aiven
Job description
About the role
Join a global team of over 400 engineers building open‑source data and AI solutions. As a Technical Support Engineer you will own customer issues from start to finish, troubleshoot a range of cloud‑native technologies, and collaborate closely with product, operations, and security teams.
Key responsibilities
- Take ownership of customer tickets, provide transparent status updates and drive issues to resolution.
- Learn and troubleshoot PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka and OpenSearch across AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
- Diagnose problems using documentation, AI‑assisted tools and standard diagnostic methods.
- Communicate clearly and empathetically with global customers.
- Escalate complex cases to senior engineers and coordinate with internal teams.
- Research, reproduce and log product malfunctions in Jira.
- Contribute to internal and external knowledge bases and automate repetitive tasks.
- Work APAC shift patterns to ensure regional coverage.
Required profile
- 1+ years experience in technical support or systems engineering, preferably in a PaaS/SaaS environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for a global audience.
- Ability to read logs and metrics to diagnose issues.
- Good judgment on when to escalate and what information to provide.
- Willingness to collaborate, learn and share knowledge.
- Basic Linux (Fedora) and networking knowledge.
- Interest in AI tools (ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude) for scripting and analysis.
Required skills
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Apache Kafka
- OpenSearch
- AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
- Linux command line (Fedora)
- Jira
- Python
- AI‑assisted tooling (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot)
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