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Tyk

Open Source #API gateway & #APImanagement platform. We're on a mission to connect every system in the world.

Principal Support Engineer

Support EngineerSupport EngineerFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 51-200H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United Kingdom

Posted

7 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Lead

Job Description

Principal Support Engineer

Tyk

• Proactively oversee the Zendesk queue, ensuring SLAs are consistently met and stepping in on critical, high-impact escalations. • Act as a point of escalation for systemic issues, leading incident resolution and partnering with cross-functional teams - escalations would first come to you before going to Product. • Work with Pod Leads to identify and resolve recurring support workflow challenges. • Guide triage practices to ensure fast, accurate issue isolation across the team. • Lead deep technical investigations, including complex debugging and source code analysis. • Identify and implement process improvements, automation, and AI tools to improve operational efficiency and reduce response/resolution time. • Maintain ticket quality across the board, ensuring product teams receive actionable, high-quality submissions. • Contribute bug fixes, tooling, or workarounds to the codebase to unblock customers. • Anticipate platform-wide issues and proactively work to prevent them through architecture awareness and preventive strategies. • Ensure critical knowledge is documented and shared, maintaining a robust Zendesk knowledge base, debugging guides, and external documentation. • Adhere to escalation SLAs and act as a key player in the on-call rotation to maintain 24/7 global support. • Take ownership of high-severity incidents and critical customer escalations. • Regularly review team metrics to identify improvement areas and help set team-wide goals and focus areas. • Partner with Product and Engineering to drive product-level changes based on support data and customer impact. • Represent the Customer Success Engineering team in company-wide strategic initiatives, shaping the future of post-sales support. • Support the evolution of internal support policies (e.g., SLAs, escalation procedures, “won’t fix” standards). • Serve as a trusted, senior post-sales contact for high-value customers, ensuring a seamless and proactive support experience. • Champion initiatives that improve the customer journey, including better routing, issue ownership, and self-service capabilities. • Take an active leadership role, ensuring timely and technically accurate responses. • Advocate for the voice of the customer in internal planning, identifying feature needs or systemic weaknesses from real-world usage. • Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and post-mortems for major incidents from a customer success position, ensuring long-term resolution and process adaptation. • Drive ticket volume reduction by identifying recurring pain points and proposing durable solutions at a platform or documentation level. • Play a critical role in evolving support strategy to scale as Tyk grows, influencing structure, tooling, and hiring decisions.

Job Requirements

  • Extensive experience in technical support or success engineering roles, with proven leadership in complex escalations and systemic improvements.
  • Strong background in dealing with large Enterprise customers.
  • Strong background in an API / APIM driven environment.
  • Someone who isn’t afraid to get their hands dirty in new technologies. A great senior engineer not only knows the Tyk component/technologies but they often will have to know and set up other technologies that the customer uses, i.e kubernetes, docker, databases, SSO/IDPs etc
  • Strong debugging skills—able to read source code and diagnose issues in distributed systems.
  • Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead without authority, influencing product, engineering, and customer success peers.
  • Passion for operational excellence, automation, and scalable support strategies.
  • A growth mindset—you lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to continuously improve yourself and those around you.
  • Comfort working with different region customers, with willingness to participate in rotational on-call shifts (including weekends).

Benefits

  • Everyone has unlimited paid holidays.
  • We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all.
  • Employee share scheme
  • Generous maternity and paternity leave
  • Volunteering Days
  • Company retreats
  • Employee Wellbeing platform

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