Overview

Because you belong at Twilio

The Who, What, Where and Why

Twilio is growing rapidly and seeking a Technical Support Engineer to join the U.S. Customer Interface team, supporting our customers’ use of our Console platform, and help customers manage their Twilio products, services, and accounts. You will function as the voice of Twilio to our customers and partners, and operate as a subject matter expert for Twilio’s customer interfaces.

Who?

Twilio is looking for a customer focused Support Engineer with demonstrated track record of providing excellent customer or technical support. We seek someone with:

  • Experience communicating complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences via phone or email mediums
  • A high competency with communicating internally and externally
  • An excitement for opportunities to problem solve and troubleshoot
  • Experience utilizing customer feedback to identify and drive improvements in our customer interfaces
  • Enthusiasm about interacting and collaborating with other departments within Twilio while searching for the solutions our customers need
  • Experience and interest in working cross functionally with Engineering, Product Management, and Sales, and sometimes with similar cross functional teams from partner organizations
  • Demonstrated desire to understand customer trends, and document and report those trends to continue to improve our support process
  • Who is able to put yourself in the customer’s shoes and have demonstrated your dedication to the customer experience
  • Proven advanced time management skills, with the ability to work well under pressure, and are proficient at developing workflows to remain efficient at tasks while still following standard processes and procedures
  • Ability to remain calm and effective at higher workloads as well as excelling at prioritization and evaluation of situational urgency

What?

As a Customer Interfaces Technical Support Engineer, you will:

  • Help our customers to use our Console interface and helping them with questions related to their account configurations, billing issues, ensuring that they are able to understand and get the most out of their Twilio experience
  • Using your strong diplomatic skills to address customer issues and provide feedback
  • Work with our customers’ and partners’ developers, architects, and support personnel to resolve complex problems with potentially very costly and far-reaching consequences
  • Leverage your experience with troubleshooting and resolving Quality of Service (QoS) issues
  • Collaborate with your teammates and the Twilio Product and Engineering teams via Slack as well as filing JIRAs to report reproducible defects
  • Spend time reviewing internal knowledge bases to stay up on industry shifts and standards
  • Work to surface and document customer pain points to assist in process improvement

We are there when our customers need us, 24/7, and this position may require working an irregular shift, including the weekend (shifts are subject to change based on evolving team and customer needs). This position will also require supporting our customers on holidays to ensure that our customer’s needs are met.

Why?

Twilio is a company that is empowering the world’s developers with modern communication in order to build better applications. Twilio is truly unique; we are a company committed to your growth, your learning, your development and your entire employee experience.  We only win when our employees succeed and we’re dedicated to helping you develop your strengths. We invest in weeks dedicated to tackling hard problems and creating your own ideas. We have a cultural foundation built on diversity, inclusion and innovation and we want you and your ideas to thrive at Twilio.

Where?

While working remotely, you will still enjoy our incredible perks: monthly Kindle book reimbursement, monthly gym reimbursement, unlimited PTO, bi-weekly All Hands and more. What you will also get to experience, is a company that believes in small teams for maximum impact; that strives to balance work and home life, that understands that this is a marathon, not a sprint; that continuously and purposefully builds an inclusive culture where everyone is able to do and be the best version of themselves. We seek people who naturally demonstrate our values, who are challenged by problems, empower others to thrive, people who can draw the owl and not be beholden to one playbook.

About us:

Millions of developers around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of communications to improve any human experience. Twilio has democratized communications channels like voice, text, chat, video and email by virtualizing the world’s communications infrastructure through APIs that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet robust enough to power the world’s most demanding applications. By making communications a part of every software developer’s toolkit, Twilio is enabling innovators across every industry — from emerging leaders to the world’s largest organizations — to reinvent how companies engage with their customers.

Twilio is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status and operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.