Yubico sets new world standards for simple, secure login.
Principal Support Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
9 days ago
Salary
$125K - $145K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Support Engineer
Yubico
• Handle Critical Escalations: Serve as the final tier of support for the most complex, high-priority, and technically demanding customer issues globally. • Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Elevate the technical baseline of the entire support organization by mentoring junior and senior engineers, leading technical deep-dives, and conducting training sessions. • Bridge Support and Engineering: Work with Engineering, QA, and Product teams to identify bugs, replicate edge-case issues, and advocate for product improvements based on customer impact. • Knowledge Management: Author, review, and maintain high-quality internal and external documentation, knowledge base articles, and troubleshooting guides. • Process & Strategy Optimization: Contribute to Technical Support team strategies, designing and implementing improved processes to enhance time-to-resolution and overall organizational efficiency.
Job Requirements
- Extensive Industry Experience: 10+ years of experience in technical support, engineering, or a related cybersecurity field.
- Technical Mastery: Proven expertise in troubleshooting hardware and software integrations, with a deep understanding of core authentication concepts.
- Leadership Track Record: Demonstrated experience in a technical leadership or mentorship role, with the ability to uplift the skills of a diverse group of support engineers.
- Communication Excellence: Exceptional ability to distill complex technical topics into clear, actionable documentation and guidance for both internal teams and external customers.
- Previous experience in domain administration, including advanced knowledge of Active Directory Certificate Services deployment and advanced troubleshooting is strongly preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of industry standards such as FIDO2, WebAuthn, PIV, OpenPGP, OATH-TOTP and PKCS11.
- Previous experience leading or coordinating support operations within the US market or other global regions.
- A history of developing new troubleshooting methodologies or automated tools that significantly improved support scalability.
- Relevant industry certifications (e.g., CISSP, Security+, Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator).
- Scripting and automation experience (Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.) to build support tools or automate repetitive tasks.
- Previous experience working with hardware tokens or HSMs (Hardware Security Modules).
Benefits
- Health coverage.
- Retirement plan.
- Wellness reimbursement.
- Learning and development.
- Time off.
- Paid parental leave.
- Commuter Benefits.
- Strong mission & company values.
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