Overview

More and more companies are using GitHub Enterprise, so the support team is growing. When our customers have problems, they contact us and it is our goal to help them as quickly and awesomely as possible. We’re looking for Enterprise Support Agents to join our North America Support team.

The position reports to an Enterprise Support Manager and works closely with other teams and leaders across the company. As an Enterprise Support Agent you will bring support experence, a passion for helping solve technical problems, and excellent communication skills to our amazing team. Your primary responsibility will be working with our customers to solve there support tickets.

GitHub works remotely and asynchronously as much as possible. While this role does not require you to live near our office, it will require some travel to meet with co-workers or attend company events.

This role may require working non-standard working hours, including weekends.

Responsibilities: 

  • Take in-bound phone support requests
  • Triage incoming support tickets
  • Work collaboratively with other support teams
  • Manage communication around customer tickets
  • Troubleshoot and help solve highly complex support tickets
  • Escalate issues to other support engineers and managers as applicable
  • Work with our Engineering team to prioritize issues and development
  • Work with our Documentation team to improve customer-facing resources

Qualifications: 

  • Current legal working authorization and currently residing in North America (United States or Canada)
  • Knowledge of Linux servers
  • General understanding of how modern web applications work
  • Enthusiasm for working directly with customers
  • Ability to clearly write and orally communicate technical information
  • Ability to review and understand code (Ruby / Bash)
  • Must have a workspace conducive to answering phone calls
  • Prior experience providing technical support
  • Excellent problem solving skills
  • Strong empathy for GitHub users and GitHub Support
  • Stellar English and grammar skills

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Technical experience (QA, documentation, systems administration, etc.)
  • Familiarity with Git and GitHub

About GitHub

Who we are and what we value:

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over ten million people use GitHub to build amazing things together. With the collaborative features of GitHub.com, and GitHub Enterprise, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write better code, faster. Collaboration We believe the best work is done together. Empathy We believe in putting people first. Quality We believe in setting the standard for excellence. Positive Impact We believe in making the world a better place through our work. Shipping We believe in creating things for the people using them.

GitHub is committed to building a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from people of color and other groups currently underrepresented in tech. We are looking for candidates who:

  • Display a strong commitment to building an inclusive tech environment
  • Have demonstrated resilience and resourcefulness both in and outside of the workplace
  • Can bring a new perspective based on unique educational, professional, and lived experiences
  • Can effectively communicate with people from disparate backgrounds
  • Have experience mentoring/coaching/teaching, particularly in environments with diverse students/participants

We have a lot of exciting things to do, and we’re looking for the right people to grow with us!

Why you should join:

At GitHub, we’re committed to transparency, collaboration, experimentation, and always staying classy.

Because of this unique perspective, we’ve established one of the most flexible and well designed physical workspaces around that encourages you to work as you work best. Right now, over 60% of our employees are based outside of our San Francisco (SOMA) headquarters and work according to how they get their best stuff done.

Ensuring that GitHubbers are healthy, motivated, focused and creative is how GitHub stays awesome. Part of this is ensuring that our benefits* are out of this world.

In a nutshell, we’ve built and are growing a place where we truly love working, and we think you will too.

GitHub is made up of people with many different backgrounds and lifestyles, and we like it that way. We invite applications from people of all stripes. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences that people imagine to discriminate against one another. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the interview process better for you; we’re happy to accommodate.

*Please note that benefits vary by country, if you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask your recruiter!